Treeness

Quick meaning: Treeness is a noun meaning (nonce word) The essence of what it means to be a tree; the qualities that make a tree what it is.

Meaning

(nonce word) The essence of what it means to be a tree; the qualities that make a tree what it is.

More Meanings

1. (graph theory) The condition of being a tree; acyclicity and connectedness.
2. (genetics) The suitability of an evolutionary tree for representing the structure of a population; the degree to which a population structure can be accurately described as a tree of descent, with different branches evolving independently after they split.

Example Sentences

Failing to statistically test for treeness, they reify the evolutionary trajectories assumed at the outset.

…every link that gives rise to a cycle into the graph (viz., that destroys the graph’s “treeness”) is eliminated….

…such a tree can be built up incrementally by adding the shortest edge not yet explored, which also maintains treeness (acyclicity).

A word represents the entity but not THE entity itself. "tree" is not a tree, you can call it "ca^y" or whatever but the conceptual meaning of treeness stays the same.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include treeship, treehood, treedom, thatness, thisness, trigness.

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