Usually means: Capacity to attract or repel.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Valence, valence: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. valence, valence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Valence, valence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. valence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. valence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Valence, valence: Wordnik
  7. valence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Valence, valence: Wiktionary
  9. valence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. valence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. valence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. valence: Dictionary.com
  13. valence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Valence (chemistry), Valence (city), Valence (disambiguation), Valence (psychology), Valence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Valence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. valence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. valence: Rhymezone
  18. Valence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. Valence: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. valence: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. valence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. valence: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. Valence: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. valence: Free Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. -valence: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Valence: Management Dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Valence (France), Valence (chemistry), valence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Valence (France), Valence (chemistry), -valence, valence: Medical dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Valence: Extragalactic Astronomy
  2. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  3. valence, valence, valence: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. valence: Graph Theory
  5. Valence: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  6. valence: PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
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  3. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, chemistry)
noun:  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.
noun:  The number of binding sites of a molecule, such as an antibody or antigen.
noun:  (countable, linguistics) The number of arguments that a verb can have, including its subject, ranging from zero to three or, less commonly, four.
noun:  (uncountable, especially psychology) A one-dimensional value assigned by a person to an object, situation, or state, that can usually be positive (causing a feeling of attraction) or negative (repulsion).
noun:  (uncountable, sociology) The value which a person places on something.
noun:  A city and commune, the capital of the Drôme department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, in southeastern France.
noun:  A village and commune of the Charente department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, in southwestern France.
noun:  A town and commune of the Tarn-et-Garonne department, Occitanie, in southern France.
noun:  Alternative spelling of valance [A short curtain that usually hangs along the top edge of a window.]

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