Valence

Valence or valency may refer to:

Science

Valence (chemistry), a measure of an element's combining power with other atoms
Degree (graph theory), also called the valency of a vertex in graph theory
Valency (linguistics), aspect of verbs relative to other parts of speech
Valence (pharmacology), efficacy (of certain vaccines and antitoxins)
Valence (psychology) or hedonic tone, the (emotional) value associated with an event, object or situation

Valence, Charente, a commune in the Charente department
Valence (city), Drôme, a commune and prefecture of the Drôme department
- University of Valence, a medieval university
Valence, Tarn-et-Garonne, a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department
Canton of Valence, Tarn-et-Garonne department
Arrondissement of Valence, Drôme department
Roman Catholic Diocese of Valence
Valence-d'Albigeois, in the Tarn department
Valence-en-Brie, in the Seine-et-Marne department
Valence-sur-Baïse, in the Gers department

Amasio Valence (born 1979), Fijian rugby union player
Maurice Valency (1903–1996), American playwright, author, critic and professor
Aymer de Valence (bishop) (c. 1220–1260), Bishop of Winchester
William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1225–1296), French nobleman who played an important role in English politics
Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis (born 1958), 4th Bishop of Chilaw

gollark: Arch makes you install those manually!

gollark: Arch kind of does this, in that its installer is basically just a convenient ISO of a package manager and a few tools for installation.

gollark: There's not actually very much common between distros we consider GNU/Linux though.

gollark: It doesn't even have coreutils.

gollark: Yës.