covalent
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- enPR: kōvā'lənt
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəʊˈveɪ.lənt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /koʊˈveɪ.lənt/
Audio (US): (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /kəʉˈvæɪ.lənt/
Adjective
covalent (comparative more covalent, superlative most covalent)
- (chemistry) Containing or characterized by a covalent bond.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
containing or characterized by a covalent bond
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Dutch
Etymology
Probably borrowed. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. "valent" unprefixed seems to be vanishingly rare in nl
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
covalent (not comparable)
Declension
| Declension of covalent | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | covalent | |||
| inflected | covalente | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | covalent | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | covalente | ||
| n. sing. | covalent | |||
| plural | covalente | |||
| definite | covalente | |||
| partitive | covalents | |||
Derived terms
French
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
covalent (feminine covalente, masculine plural covalents, feminine plural covalentes)
Further reading
- “covalent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from German kovalent.
Adjective
covalent m or n (feminine singular covalentă, masculine plural covalenți, feminine and neuter plural covalente)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | covalent | covalentă | covalenți | covalente | |||
| definite | covalentul | covalenta | covalenții | covalentele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | covalent | covalente | covalenți | covalente | |||
| definite | covalentului | covalentei | covalenților | covalentelor | ||||