bivalent : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bivalent	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bivalent adj having a valence of two or having two valences [syn: bivalent, divalent] used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis Synonym(s): bivalent, double Antonym(s): multivalent, univalent
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bivalent \Biv"a*lent\, a. [L. bis twice + valens, p. pr. See {Valence}.] (Chem.) Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad.