valence

IPA: vˈeɪɫʌns

(countable, chemistry)
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 number of binding sites of a molecule, such as an antibody or antigen.
(countable, linguistics) The number of arguments that a verb can have, including its subject, ranging from zero to three or, less commonly, four.
(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).
(uncountable, sociology) The value which a person places on something.
A city and commune, the capital of the Drôme department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, in southeastern France.
A village and commune of the Charente department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, in southwestern France.
A town and commune of the Tarn-et-Garonne department, Occitanie, in southern France.
Alternative spelling of valance [A short curtain that usually hangs along the top edge of a window.]

Examples of "valence" in Sentences

Mulliken has been deeply interested in valence theory and molecular structure.
However, only in one test phase was this judgment followed by a word valence rating.
More importantly, however, the latter value failed to correlate with the word valence effect.
Participants performed the word valence judgment on a different set of words than the prosody memory task.
Participants were informed about the word valence rating only when commencing the word recognition test in the actual experiment.
In either case, however, the word valence effect would depend on and therefore correlate with the participants 'memory for prosody.
Future research could address this issue by using the same stimuli in a word valence task and a prosody memory task but separating them by several days.
Participants were informed about the word valence rating and the prosody memory task only when commencing the respective test block in the actual experiment.
If prosody modulates word valence during memory encoding or consolidation, memory for prosody should be irrelevant and hence may not correlate with the word valence effect.
In a specific context of a jurisdiction where you have high levels of funding and relatively strong unions, the main valence of union power is going to be to shift education policies at the margin in the interests of the teachers rather than in the public interest.