Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality or fact of being between.
  • noun In mathematics, the ordinal quality possessed by one of every three points on a straight line, in virtue of which it may be said to lie between the other two points.

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  • noun The state or quality of being between.

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Examples

  • Some nodes are more important than others, depending on their "betweenness" scores, determined, basically, by how well connected an individual is to others in the network.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Some nodes are more important than others, depending on their "betweenness" scores, determined, basically, by how well connected an individual is to others in the network.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Some nodes are more important than others, depending on their "betweenness" scores, determined, basically, by how well connected an individual is to others in the network.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Some nodes are more important than others, depending on their "betweenness" scores, determined, basically, by how well connected an individual is to others in the network.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Some nodes are more important than others, depending on their "betweenness" scores, determined, basically, by how well connected an individual is to others in the network.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Some nodes are more important than others, depending on their "betweenness" scores, determined, basically, by how well connected an individual is to others in the network.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Well it seems this UK Web Focus blog is: th 6th place in a list of the Open University's top 100 influencers in 'distance learning'; th in a 'betweenness' category of "Stakeholders who are" stations "where information (on the issue in focus) is passed via in order to reach the constituency of said stakeholder";

    UK Web Focus 2009

  • The struggle to make sense of this sort of hybrid life, or "in-betweenness," permeates Abu-Jaber's fiction.

    Diana Abu-Jaber discusses her true identity with Origin 2010

  • This betweenness is a numinous layer; it is why we want to possess things, and why we can't.

    Brian D. Cohen: Things Brian D. Cohen 2011

  • Elkins savors the perception of the "betweenness" of objects rather than their "thingness."

    Brian D. Cohen: Things Brian D. Cohen 2011

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