Small-worldness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Small-worldness is a noun meaning (mathematics) The property of being a small-world network.
Meaning
(mathematics) The property of being a small-world network.
Example Sentences
Topologically, functional brain networks had reduced clustering and small-worldness, reduced probability of high-degree hubs, and increased robustness in the schizophrenic group.
A paper by Watts and his thesis advisor Steve Strogatz, largely free of mathematics, set ablaze huge interest in the phenomenon of small-worldness with its architectural fingerprints being found in diverse fields as ecosystems, natural language and the World Wide Web.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include supercompactness, assortativity, subminimality, pseudocompactness, bridgeness, closeness.
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