Atomicity vs. Valency

Atomicitynoun

(uncountable) The quality or state of being atomic.

Atomicitynoun

(chemistry) The number of atoms in a molecule.

Atomicitynoun

(computing) The state of a system (often a database system) in which either all stages complete or none complete.

Atomicitynoun

Degree of atomic attraction; equivalence; valence; also (a later use) the number of atoms in an elementary molecule. See Valence.

Valencynoun

(graph theory) The number of edges connected to a vertex in a graph.

Valencynoun

Valence.

Valencynoun

(linguistics) The capacity of a verb to take a specific number of arguments.

Valencynoun

See Valence.

Valencynoun

the phenomenon of forming chemical bonds

Valencynoun

(biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate

Valencynoun

(chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent)

Valencynoun

the combining power of an element, especially as measured by the number of hydrogen atoms it can displace or combine with

Valencynoun

the number of grammatical elements with which a particular word, especially a verb, combines in a sentence