quadrivalent
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English
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Adjective
quadrivalent (not comparable)
- (chemistry) Having a valence of four
- (medicine, of a vaccine) Protecting against four different (usually flu) viruses.
- (graph theory) Said of a graph: that all of its vertices have degree four.
- 2020 January 3, Wikipedia contributors, “Knot (mathematics)”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
- In graph theory terms, a regular projection of a knot, or knot diagram is thus a quadrivalent planar graph with over/under-decorated vertices.
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Noun
quadrivalent (plural quadrivalents)
- (genetics) Any quadrivalent chromosome
French
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quadrivalent (feminine quadrivalente, masculine plural quadrivalents, feminine plural quadrivalentes)
- quadrivalent (all senses)
Further reading
- “quadrivalent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.