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Multivalence vs Multivalency - What's the difference?

multivalence | multivalency |

As nouns the difference between multivalence and multivalency

is that multivalence is the quality of being multivalent while multivalency is the property of being multivalent.

multivalence

English

Noun

  • The quality of being multivalent.

    • multivalency

    English

    Noun

  • The property of being multivalent.
  • *{{quote-journal, 2000, date=September 8, Gavin MacBeath & Stuart L. Schreiber, Printing Proteins as Microarrays for High-Throughput Function Determination, Science citation
    • , passage=The fact that the intensity of the fluorescence did not vary appreciably as the affinity of the interaction was lowered can be attributed to the multivalency of the BSA conjugates (avidity effects). }}

    See also

    * bivalency