betweenness

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Etymology

Etymology tree
English between
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-der.
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English betweenness

    From 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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