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原子価 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • valence noun In chemistry, the combining power of an atom, measured by the number of chemical bonds it can form or the number of electrons it gains, loses or shares.

Senses

原子価 is used for these senses in English:

  • valence The combining capacity of an atom, functional group, or radical determined by the number of atoms of hydrogen with which it will unite, or the number of electrons that it will gain, lose, or share when it combines with other atoms, etc. [from 1884]

valence — full definition

  1. noun In chemistry, the combining power of an atom, measured by the number of chemical bonds it can form or the number of electrons it gains, loses or shares.
  2. noun In psychology, the intrinsic attractiveness or unpleasantness of something, treated as a value on a scale from positive to negative.
  3. noun In linguistics, the number and type of arguments a verb requires, such as a subject alone or a subject and two objects.

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