Betweenness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being between. uncountable
  2. 2
    A measure of the number of geodesic paths through a node or edge. countable

    "This is done by computing all the betweennesses of all edges and then looking for the ones with the highest values."

Synonyms

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betweenhoodbetwixtness

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"This is done by computing all the betweennesses of all edges and then looking for the ones with the highest values."

Etymology

From between + -ness.

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