0 used to refer to atoms or molecules that have a valency of three or more:
1 having or using a lot of different forms or features:
Their education is polyvalent rather than specialized.
He emphasized the polyvalent character of the images in the art.
A mordant is often a polyvalent metal ion.
Polyvalent serum, containing anti-viper and anti-cobra, was given intravenously on admission.
First, we must have a vaccine that is polyvalent—that can deal with all the strains of foot and mouth disease.
However, these experiments had been carried out in the era of polyclonal antibodies, with a possibility that co-distributions of receptors were induced by cross-linking of polyvalent antibodies.
At the same time, myth and style are polyvalent notions, and either or both could come into play in ways beyond those originally foreseen by the innovators.
Such polyvalent concepts could never be subject to unidimensional measurement, still less reduced to mathematical law.
This regulatory role for polyvalent metal ions will be the main theme of the present review.
There is no discussion of any difficulty in deciding to which language any element belonged, and no marking of hybrid or polyvalent elements.
