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polyvalent
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polyvalent [¦päl·i′vā·lənt]
(chemistry)
Pertaining to an ion with more than one valency, such as the sulfate ion, SO42-. Also known as multivalent; polygen.
(immunology)
Of antigens, having many combining sites or determinants.
Pertaining to vaccines composed of mixtures of different organisms, and to the resulting mixed antiserum.


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Although the symphony in its canonical form militates for a progressive and unidirectional time, it is not without its own polyvalence.
In their formal economy and conceptual polyvalence, they render--or actually perform--communality.
The first is a strategy of duality, where the self is described as interacting with two oppositional social forces, and the second is a strategy of polyvalence, where the self is described as a hybrid that cannot be represented through dualisms.
 
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