centrality

centrality

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der.
Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)der.
Latin centrum
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin centrālisbor.
English central
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English centrality

    From central + -ity.

    Pronunciation

    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɛnˈtɹæl.ɪ.ti/
    • (General American) IPA(key): /sɛnˈtɹæl.ə.ti/, [sɛnˈtɹæl.ə.ɾi]
    • (General Australian) IPA(key): /senˈtɹæl.ə.ti/, [senˈtɹæl.ə.ɾi]
    • Audio (US):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ælɪti

    Noun

    centrality (countable and uncountable, plural centralities)

    1. 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.
    2. A tendency to remain at, or move towards the centre.
    3. (mathematics) Any of various measures of the relative importance of a vertex in a graph.

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