noun
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Any quadrivalent chromosome
adjective
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Having a valence of four
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(of a vaccine) Protecting against four different (usually flu) viruses.
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Said of a graph: that all of its vertices have degree four.
Examples of quadrivalent in a Sentence
In the case of the quadrivalent carbon, diamond seems to be the stable form at ordinary temperatures, but one may wait long before it is formed from graphite.
In most cases it behaves as a divalent element, but it may also be quadrivalent.
Villiger (Be y ., 1901, 34, pp. 2679, 3612) showed that many organic compounds (ethers, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, &c.) behave towards acids, particularly the more complex acids, very much like bases and yield crystallized salts in which quadrivalent oxygen must be assumed as the basic element.
Walden point out from the physico-chemical standpoint that in water and hydrogen peroxide the oxygen atom is probably quadrivalent.
A valid certificate showing that the quadrivalent vaccine has been received is now a requirement for pilgrims to enter Saudi Arabia.