Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or fact of being between.
 - noun In mathematics, the ordinal quality possessed by one of every three points on a straight line, in virtue of which it may be said to lie between the other two points.
 
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun   The state or quality of being 
between . 
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
				Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word betweenness.
Examples
- 
								
Some nodes are more important than others, depending on their "betweenness" scores, determined, basically, by how well connected an individual is to others in the network.
NPR Topics: News 2010
 - 
								
Some nodes are more important than others, depending on their "betweenness" scores, determined, basically, by how well connected an individual is to others in the network.
NPR Topics: News 2010
 - 
								
Some nodes are more important than others, depending on their "betweenness" scores, determined, basically, by how well connected an individual is to others in the network.
NPR Topics: News 2010
 - 
								
Some nodes are more important than others, depending on their "betweenness" scores, determined, basically, by how well connected an individual is to others in the network.
NPR Topics: News 2010
 - 
								
Some nodes are more important than others, depending on their "betweenness" scores, determined, basically, by how well connected an individual is to others in the network.
NPR Topics: News 2010
 - 
								
Some nodes are more important than others, depending on their "betweenness" scores, determined, basically, by how well connected an individual is to others in the network.
NPR Topics: News 2010
 - 
								
Well it seems this UK Web Focus blog is: th 6th place in a list of the Open University's top 100 influencers in 'distance learning'; th in a 'betweenness' category of "Stakeholders who are" stations "where information (on the issue in focus) is passed via in order to reach the constituency of said stakeholder";
UK Web Focus 2009
 - 
								
The struggle to make sense of this sort of hybrid life, or "in-betweenness," permeates Abu-Jaber's fiction.
Diana Abu-Jaber discusses her true identity with Origin 2010
 - 
								
This betweenness is a numinous layer; it is why we want to possess things, and why we can't.
Brian D. Cohen: Things Brian D. Cohen 2011
 - 
								
Elkins savors the perception of the "betweenness" of objects rather than their "thingness."
Brian D. Cohen: Things Brian D. Cohen 2011
 
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.