Meaning of Valency | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Degree of utility or appreciate of something or somebody.
2. The capacity of something to combine with other things, as for example the capability of a vaccine as measured by the number of pathogen serotypes that it can counteract.
   Britain, broadly, uncountable
3. The number of edges connected to a vertex in a graph.
   Britain, countable
4. Importance, significance.
   Britain, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“vaccine valency”

“Some etymons appear⟳ to have⟳ greater valency than others when it comes to the formation of portmanteau words.”

“The rationale behind GSK's buy⟳ is that bigger is better, in terms of vaccine valency. It has been shown that including more disease-causing serotypes decreases the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease. To this end⟳, Pfizer and Merck last⟳ year got the nod for 20-valent and 15-valent vaccines respectively. Affinivax's AFX3772, meanwhile, is a 24-valent jab.”

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