Quadrivalent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Chemistry Having four valences.
  • adj. Chemistry Having a valence of four; tetravalent.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having a valence of four.
  • n. Any quadrivalent chromosome.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having a valence of four; capable of combining with, being replaced by, or compared with, four monad atoms; tetravalent; -- said of certain atoms and radicals.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In chem., noting an atom the equivalence of which is four, or an element one atom of which is equivalent, in combining power, to four atoms of hydrogen; tetradic; tetratomic.
  • n. A quadrivalent atom or element.
  • Word Usage
    "Soldan and colleagues say that genital warts "exert a considerable impact on health services, a large proportion of which could be prevented through immunisation using the quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine"."
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    trivalent    bivalent   
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