Valency is an English word with synonyms like valence or power. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Valency in a sentence
Valency meaning
- Alternative form of valence (“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.”).
- 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.
Using Valency
- The main meaning on this page is: Alternative form of valence (“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.”). | Alternative form of valence (“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.”). | 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.
- Useful related words include: chemical phenomenon, valence, power, powerfulness.
- In the example corpus, valency often appears in combinations such as: the valency, valency of, to valency.
Context around Valency
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 4 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Valency
- In this selection, "valency" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, languages, non, higher, marking, change and arguments stand out and add context to how "valency" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a higher valency is reducible and base the valency of the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "valency" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with valency
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Comparison of labeled trees with valency three. (7 words)
Verbs are often flexible with regard to valency. (8 words)
Dependency and Valency: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research. (9 words)
Where the transitivity of a verb only considers the objects, the valency of a verb considers all the arguments the verb takes, including both the subject of the verb and all of the objects (of which there are none for an intransitive verb). (43 words)
Some verbs in English, however, have historically derived forms that show change of valency in some causative verbs, such as fall-fell-fallen:fell-felled-felled; rise-rose-risen:raise-raised-raised; cost-cost-cost:cost-costed-costed. (38 words)
Later, Peirce gave a mathematical reason for there being three categories in that although monadic, dyadic and triadic nodes are irreducible, every node of a higher valency is reducible to a "compound of triadic relations". (35 words)
Example sentences (14)
In valency marking languages, valency change is shown by inflecting the verb in order to change the valency.
Classified by the number of their valency arguments, usually three basic types are distinguished: intransitives, transitives, ditransitives and double transitive verbs.
Comparison of labeled trees with valency three.
Dependency and Valency: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research.
In contrast to valency, the transitivity of a verb only considers the objects.
In non-valency marking languages such as English, a transitive verb can often drop its object and become intransitive; or an intransitive verb can take an object and become transitive.
Later, Peirce gave a mathematical reason for there being three categories in that although monadic, dyadic and triadic nodes are irreducible, every node of a higher valency is reducible to a "compound of triadic relations".
Some verbs in English, however, have historically derived forms that show change of valency in some causative verbs, such as fall-fell-fallen:fell-felled-felled; rise-rose-risen:raise-raised-raised; cost-cost-cost:cost-costed-costed.
Such verbs in Spanish also have a valency of 1. Intransitive and transitive verbs are the most common, but the impersonal and objective verbs are somewhat different from the norm.
The formation of the acetylide depends upon several factors such as the pK b of the base, the valency of the metal, and solvent characteristics.
The table showed that elements with similar properties often shared the same valency.
Valence and bonding behavior main Valency is the combining power of an element.
Verbs are often flexible with regard to valency.
Where the transitivity of a verb only considers the objects, the valency of a verb considers all the arguments the verb takes, including both the subject of the verb and all of the objects (of which there are none for an intransitive verb).
Common combinations with valency
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the valency 3×
- valency of 3×
- to valency 2×
- valency is 2×