Small-worldness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The property of being a small-world network. uncountable
"A paper by Watts and his thesis advisor Steve Strogatz, largely free of mathematics, set ablaze huge interest in the phenomenon of small-worldness with its architectural fingerprints being found in diverse fields as ecosystems, natural language and the World Wide Web."
Example
More examples"A paper by Watts and his thesis advisor Steve Strogatz, largely free of mathematics, set ablaze huge interest in the phenomenon of small-worldness with its architectural fingerprints being found in diverse fields as ecosystems, natural language and the World Wide Web."
Etymology
From small-world + -ness.
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