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nounbetweenness (countable and uncountable, plural betweennesses)
plural betweennesses
- countablegraph theoryA measure of the number of geodesic paths through a node or edge.
This is done by computing all the betweennesses of all edges and then looking for the ones with the highest values.
2010, David Easley, Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
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nounThe state or quality of being between.
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