betweenness

English

Etymology

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.