centrality
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɛnˈtɹæl.ɪ.ti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sɛnˈtɹæl.ə.ti/,
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /senˈtɹæl.ə.ti/,
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ælɪti
Noun
centrality (countable and uncountable, plural centralities)
- The state of being central.
- 2002, Diane Richardson, Steven Seidman, Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies:
- As a result, the linkage between race-hate, gay-hate, and misogyny is evident (Sheffield, 1992: 389), but the centrality of race and gender in the gay and lesbian activism dealing with violence is negligible.
- A tendency to remain at, or move towards the centre.
- (mathematics) Any of various measures of the relative importance of a vertex in a graph.
Derived terms
Translations
the state of being central
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