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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