betweenness

English

Etymology

between +‎ -ness

Noun

betweenness (countable and uncountable, plural betweennesses)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being between.
    Synonyms: betweenhood, betwixtness
  2. (graph theory, countable) A measure of the number of geodesic paths through a node or edge.
    • 2010, David Easley, Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World:
      This is done by computing all the betweennesses of all edges and then looking for the ones with the highest values.

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