[Editors] a word use question

[William T. G. Litant]

Among for more than two unless a multiple is considered one side of a pair (e.g., The argument was between the students and the provost, president, and chancellor).

On Mar 4, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Scott R Campbell <scottc at MIT.EDU<mailto:scottc at MIT.EDU>> wrote:

This question has been posed to me and I don’t know the answer.  Should the word in this sentence be ‘between’ or ‘among’?

Rotating between asphalt, grass and photovoltaic cells, spaces can dynamically shift from city street to park to energy source – on demand.

‘Between’ sounds right to me but my questioner suggests that when there are more than three, ‘among’ is the right choice.  What’s the rule here?

It’s a caption for this image:

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