multivalency

English

Etymology

multi- +‎ valency

Noun

multivalency (countable and uncountable, plural multivalencies)

1. The property of being multivalent.
   • 2000 September 8, Gavin MacBeath, Stuart L. Schreiber, “Printing Proteins as Microarrays for High-Throughput Function Determination”, in Science‎^[1], volume 289, number 5485, pages 1760–1763:

     The fact that the intensity of the fluorescence did not vary appreciably as the affinity of the interaction was lowered can be attributed to the multivalency of the BSA conjugates (avidity effects).

See also

• bivalency