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betweenness|bɪˈtwiːnnɪs|
[f. between + -ness.]
The condition or fact of being between; spec. in Math., 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.
1892Monist II. 243 In reality there are not two things and, in addition to them a betweenness of the two things. 1904Science 11 Mar. 410/2 Of Hilbert's betweenness assumptions, axioms of order, one of the five is redundant. 1966Mathematical Rev. Jan. 18/1 The author lists fifteen possibilities for a betweenness relation on a lattice. |