Meanings
- uncountableThe state or condition of being inside.
Children as young as four are known to have relational concepts such as insideness, sameness, and so on (eg, Smith, 1989).
1995, David R. Shanks, The psychology of associative learning1 more example
If we can establish a point that is guaranteed to be outside of our polygon, we can test the insideness of any point by connecting this test point to our outside point by a straight line and counting the number of times the line crosses the polygon.
1995, Linux Journal, numbers 15-20, page 42
Origin
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