Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun covalence

1 sense of covalence

Sense 1
covalence, covalency -- (valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share)
       => valence, valency -- ((chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent))