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Sparse

//spɑːɹs// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having widely spaced intervals.

    "a sparse array, index, or matrix"

  2. 2
    Not dense; meager; scanty
  3. 3
    Having few nonzero elements
Adjective
  1. 1
    not dense wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To disperse, to scatter. obsolete

    "They began properly to ſparſe pretye rumours in the North, that no man ſhulde eate whyte breade, no man eate pygge, gooſe, or capon, without he agreed before with the kynge."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin sparsus.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin sparsus.

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