0 a measurement that shows the number of hydrogen atoms that can combine with one atom of a particular chemical element to make a compound, used to describe how easily an element can connect in a chemical way with others:
Zinc has a valency of 2.
Contradictions were also apparent, however, in that respect and criticisms were simultaneously present as explanatory orientations (or ' pragmatic valencies ' or ' paralogy ').
The dependence of a verb's grammatical properties on derivational processes of stem creation is particularly interesting when valency-changing mechanisms are considered cross-linguistically.
This density of musical information, as we shall see later, has dramaturgical valency.
Above all, the editors stress the need for in-depth typological surveys of each major valency-changing type.
Figure 6.1 displays a graphical description of three rings of patches around a vertex of valency five.
The valency of a vertex, or a face, is the number of edges that share that vertex, or that face.
By way of balance, it would have been ideal if a similarly general chapter on valency-decreasing mechanisms could have been added to the book.
Strong inherent transitive valency and little specific semantics is what turns these verbs into generic, prototypical transitive verbs.
