Used in a Sentence

centrality

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for centrality.

Editorial note

The statistical distribution of fund performance means that average doesn't make sense as a centrality measure.

Examples15
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The state of being central.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of centrality gathered in one view.

noun

The state of being central.

noun

A tendency to remain at, or move towards the centre.

noun

(mathematics) Any of various measures of the relative importance of a vertex in a graph.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for centrality.

noun

The state of being central.

noun

A tendency to remain at, or move towards the centre.

noun

(mathematics) Any of various measures of the relative importance of a vertex in a graph.

Example sentences

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The statistical distribution of fund performance means that average doesn't make sense as a centrality measure.

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My worry is that you lose intuitions of centrality with this, with the exception of degree centrality, since nodes with the highest degree are sorted from left to right.

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Two decades ago, the centrality of our immune systems in the prevention and/or evolution of cancers was barely appreciated.

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At a Macro-level, G+ had a big narrative of power-accretion and increasing centrality (for several years).

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The centrality of the distinction between linguistic competence and linguistic performance is exactly one of the bad premises of Chomskyan linguistics.

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It's a lot less sexy than eigenvector centrality, but I think it would have the intended effect.

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The huge advantage of Ninja is that it's distributed, which absolutely gauarantees non-centrality.

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Only seems to differ strongly from blogs in its centrality, but (surprisingly) I'm not sure this is actually a big issue.

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The speciesism in the article struck me as an odd centrality.

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It's a shortcut in everyday speak for some measure of centrality.

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It seems like centrality is important for the concept of consciousness (I agree that it means a hundred different things but it's convineient to talk about as a single thing).

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When you destroy the centrality of reddit, even if by cutting out really bad stuff, you encourage the sharding of the web into isolated echo chambers.

Quote examples

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Motive, as discussed slightly above, can be mainly either "convenience of centrality" > or > "hiding a bigger sum"..

2

We can ship it later and it would be higher quality but someone else might have eaten our lunch by then." In other words in retrospect, If speed is a concern, "being disciplined about testing" is NOT important which is hardly "consensus" about the centrality of testing.

Proper noun examples

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Centrality becomes the norm, with all the chilling ripple effects.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use centrality in a sentence?

The statistical distribution of fund performance means that average doesn't make sense as a centrality measure.

What does centrality mean?

The state of being central.

What part of speech is centrality?

centrality is commonly used as noun.