centrality

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱen-?

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-trom

Proto-Indo-European *ḱéntrom

Proto-Hellenic *kéntron

Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)bor.

Latin centrum

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

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]
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /senˈtɹæl.ə.ti/, [senˈtɹæl.ə.ɾi]

• Audio (US):

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• 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.

Derived terms

• eigencentrality
• noncentrality

Translations

the state of being central

• Catalan: centralitat f
• Irish: lárnacht f
• Latin: centrālitās f
• Mongolian: төвлөрсөн байдал (tövlörsön baidal)
• Portuguese: centralidade (pt) f
• Spanish: centralidad f

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Translations to be checked

• French: centralité (fr) f
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} centralità (it) f, ^{(please verify)} focalità f
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 主要 (ja) (しゅよう, shuyō)