betweennessn.
/bᵻˈtwiːnnᵻs/, U.S. /bəˈtwi(n)nᵻs/, /biˈtwi(n)nᵻs/ The condition or fact of being between; spec. 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.
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1892 Monist 2 243 In reality there are not two things and, in addition to them a betweenness of the two things.
1904 Science 11 Mar. 410/2 Of Hilbert's betweenness assumptions, axioms of order, one of the five is redundant.
1966 Math. Rev. Jan. 18/1 The author lists fifteen possibilities for a betweenness relation on a lattice.
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