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How to pronounce valency in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms valence
Type of power, powerfulness
Type Words
Synonyms valence
Type of powerfulness, power
Has types covalency, covalence
Derivation valent
Type Words
Type of chemical phenomenon

Examples of valency

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In contrast to valency, the transitivity of a verb only considers the objects.
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When the causative voice is applied to a verb, its valency increases by one.
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Most Nahuatl varieties have a number of ways to alter the valency of a verb.
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The number of arguments that a verb takes is called its valency or valence.
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In English, they require a dummy pronoun, and therefore formally have a valency of 1.
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The table revealed that elements with similar properties often shared the same valency.
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Initial trees represent basic valency relations, while auxiliary trees allow for recursion.
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It is closely related to valency, which considers other verb arguments in addition to direct objects.
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English verbs are often flexible with regard to valency.
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More examples
  • The phenomenon of forming chemical bonds
  • Valence: (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate
  • Valence: (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent)
  • In chemistry, valence, also known as valency or valency number, is a measure of the number of chemical bonds formed by the atoms of a given element. ...
  • In linguistics, verb valency or valence refers to the number of arguments controlled by a verbal predicate. It is related, though not identical, to verb transitivity, which counts only object arguments of the verbal predicate. ...
  • In graph theory, the degree (or valency) of a vertex of a graph is the number of edges incident to the vertex, with loops counted twice. ...
  • The number of edges connected to a vertex in a graph; valence; The capacity of a verb to take a specific number of arguments
  • A measure of the reactivity of an element.
  • Is the combining ability of an element with respect to hydrogen (e.g., in water, H2O, oxygen has a valency of 2).