What does bivalent mean?

bivalent means "having a valence of two or having two valences". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bivalent?

bivalent has 3 syllables and divides as bi-va-lent under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bivalent?

Close synonyms include divalent, double. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of bivalent?

The recorded antonyms are multivalent, univalent.

Is bivalent a common word?

bivalent is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Bivalent — meaning, 2 senses and 2 synonyms

adjective

2 sensesA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
having a valence of two or having two valences
Synonymsdivalent
chemistry
2.
used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis
Synonymsdouble
Antonymsmultivalent univalent
genetics

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