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Value vs Valence - What's the difference?

value | valence |

As nouns the difference between value and valence

is that value is the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable while valence is an extract; a preparation, now especially one effective against a certain number of strains of a pathogen.

As a verb value

is to estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.

value

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , passage=United were value for their win and Rooney could have had a hat-trick before half-time, with Paul Scholes also striking the post in the second half.}}
  • The degree of importance given to something.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}
  • The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
  • * M'Culloch
    • An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value .
  • * Dryden
    • His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
  • (arts) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
  • * Joe Hing Lowe
    • I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, mediumand light.
  • Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
  • Precise meaning; import.
    • the value''' of a word; the '''value of a legal instrument
    (Mitford)
  • (obsolete) Esteem; regard.
    • (Dryden)
  • * Bishop Burnet
    • My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.
  • (obsolete) valour; also spelled valew
    • (Spenser)

    Synonyms

    * (quality that renders something desirable) worth

    Derived terms

    * valuable * valueless * valueness * economic value * face value * note value * par value * time value

    Verb

    (valu)
  • To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
  • To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
  • To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
  • To hold dear.

    • Synonyms

    * appreciate * assess * esteem * prise, prize * rate * respect * treasure * valuate * worthen

    Antonyms

    * disesteem * disrespect

    See also

    * value system

    Statistics

    *

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    valence

    English

    (wikipedia valence)

    Etymology 1

    * (sense), from (etyl) (1425) * (combining capacity) from (etyl) Valenz (1884)

    Alternative forms

    * valency (mostly UK)

    Noun

    (valences)
  • An extract; a preparation, now especially one effective against a certain number of strains of a pathogen.
    • trivalent vaccine (one meant to be effective against three strains)
  • (chemistry) The combining capacity of an atom, radical or functional group determined by the number of electrons that it will lose, gain, or share when it combines with other atoms etc
  • (chemistry) The number of binding sites of a molecule, such as an antibody or antigen
  • (linguistics) The number of arguments that a verb can have, including the subject of the verb in the counting, ranging from zero (for the likes of "It rains") to three (for the likes of "He gives her a flower").
  • (psychology) A one-dimensional value assigned to an object, situation, or state, that can usually be positive or negative
  • (sociology) value
    • Synonyms
    * (chemistry) valency * (linguistics) valency
    Derived terms
    (terms derived from valence) * equivalence * primary valence * secondary valence * polyvalence
    Related terms
    * valent * -valent

    Etymology 2

    (en)

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • See also

    * valance

    References

    * Online Etymology Dictionary

    Anagrams

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