Calling all DICTIONARY owners!!!!!!

[Comet]

Please, please, please! Get your dictionary, don't use an online one! (humor me PLEASE!!!!!)

I'd like to know the name, edition, publishing date, and brand of your dictionary. Then I want you to look up the word "trivalent". If it is in there, please send me the information above. If it is not, please let me know as I'll have a few more questions.

Thank you all who actually do this for me, I do have reason!

 

[Don Penguinoini]

Well, i can snwer!

No, no, no, no, no, no and...NO!

 

[McBell]

trivalent, tervalent
ADJ
1. with valence of 3; having a chemical valence of three
2. with 3 valences; with three chemical valences
3. formed by 3 chromosomes; formed by three homologous chromosomes that lie close together or appear to join during the first division of meiosis

"Trivalent." Encarta World English Dictionary. New York: Bloomsbury Plc, 1999.

 

[BillBo]

The Concise Oxford Dictionary, eigth edition, printed 1993, OUP.

Yes it is listed.

adj. Chem. having a valency of three.

 

[Booko]

Please, please, please! Get your dictionary, don't use an online one! (humor me PLEASE!!!!!)

I'd like to know the name, edition, publishing date, and brand of your dictionary. Then I want you to look up the word "trivalent". If it is in there, please send me the information above. If it is not, please let me know as I'll have a few more questions.

Thank you all who actually do this for me, I do have reason!

Uh, should I just look that up in my Chemistry text?

Just a tic I'll go get some of my dictionaries.

 

[Booko]

Oddly, it's in my Cassell's French Dictionary, though I presume that won't suit your purpose?

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Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, 1983 -- YES

1. Having a valence of three
2. a group of three synapsed homologous chromosomes in meiosis

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Oxford English Dictionary, 1971 -- YES

Chem. Having the combining power of three atoms of hydrogen or other univalent element; combining with three atoms of a univalent element or radical.

(First known occurence was in 1868 in Fowne's Elementary Chemistry, but I presume you didn't really want the notes and queries, yes?)

 

[Scarlett Wampus]

The Concise Oxford Dictionary, eigth edition, printed 1993, OUP.

Yes it is listed.

adj. Chem. having a valency of three.

I have the same dictionary, same edition.

Random word of the day: oakum.

 

[YmirGF]

Funky Wagnall's Standard College Dictionary; Canadian Edition 1973

P. 1433
trivalent - adj. Chemistry. - Having a valence or combing value of three: also tervalent

 

[doppelganger]

Oxford American Desk Dictionary, 1998

tri*va*lent, adj., Chem. having a valence of three. -- trivalence, n.; trivalency; n.

 

[Comet]

Thank you all! This just gives me even more backing for my complaint to Random House Publishing!!!!!!!!

I had asked this question due to the dictionary I own, the last one I bought. It was published in 2001. It defines the word "lutetium" with the word "trivalent". Trivalent is not defined in the same dictionary. Granted, I knew what it meant but I looked anyway. The same dictionary doesn't even list "valent" under valence as a valid form of the word!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you see my problem there? How cana dictionary use a term it does not define to define another word?!?!?!?!?????????

With the people I've asked, your responses, and other dictionaries owned by my job and friends that I've looked at; I can deduce that OTHER companies have defined a term they used and did not define for at least 20 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!

Am I so wrong in my problem with this? I am so wrong to complain to Random House? I am wrong to ask for my $5.99 + 8.46% sales tax back from them?

Seriously!?!?!? What is the point of buying a dictionary that uses terms it does not define!?!?!?! Ironic or wrong?

 

[Magic Man]

Webster's II New Riverside Dictionary printed in 1996.

Trivalent adj. Having valence.

 

[doppelganger]

Thank you all! This just gives me even more backing for my complaint to Random House Publishing!!!!!!!!

What do you expect from a publisher called "Random House." They probably just pull the definitions out of a hat.

 

[Draka]

Yes it is defined.

Webster's New World Dictionary; Pocket Books; Wiley Publishing; 2003