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polyvalence

noun

Etymology

From poly- + valence.

  1. derived from *h₂welh₁-✻ — “to rule; powerful, strong”
  2. derived from valentia — “bodily strength; health; vigour”
  3. derived from quantus — “how much”
  4. borrowed from Valenz
  5. prefixed as polyvalence — “poly + valence”

Definitions

  1. The state of being polyvalent.

  2. Congruence with polyvalency.

  3. A quality of music that is played in more than one harmonic function in the same key.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for polyvalence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA