Sparse
/spɑːɹs/ adj, verb
adj, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 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."
Adjective
- 1 Having widely spaced intervals.
"a sparse array, index, or matrix"
- 2 Not dense; meager; scanty
- 3 Having few nonzero elements
Adjective
- 1 not dense wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"It makes things easier if your matrix is sparse."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sparsus.