insideness
nounEtymology From inside + -ness.
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The state or condition of being inside.
- Children as young as four are known to have relational concepts such as insideness, sameness, and so on (eg, Smith, 1989).1995, David R. Shanks, The psychology of associative learning:
- If we can establish a point that is guaranteed to be outside of our polygon, we can test the insideness of any point by connecting this test point to our outside point by a straight line and counting the number of times the line crosses the polygon.1995, Linux Journal, numbers 15-20, page 42: