It makes things easier if your matrix is sparse.
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Sparse
/spɑːɹs/
Synonyms for "sparse" (129 found)
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Closest matches (26)
almost unheard-ofat a premiumbroadcastcheeseparingchinchychintzydiffusediscretedisperseddispreaddisseminateddissipateddistributedexiguous
Noun(4 words)
crowd thinningfew cluesfew resourcesgerman dünn
Adjective(1 words)
Verb(1 words)
Determiner(2 words)
fewfew instances
Strong matches (39)
in short supplyinappreciableinfrequentinsignificantleanlimitedlittlemeagermeagremeaslymiserlyniggardlynot muchnot to be hadoccasionalout of printout of seasonout of stockpiddlingpoor
Adjective(3 words)
Noun(2 words)
less sharedminimalist
Adjective(10 words)
Determiner(1 words)
most seedling thinning
Adverb(1 words)
nearly zero density
Related words (64)
Related word relations
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More general
3 entriesdata density conceptdensity descriptorscarcity concept
More specific
6 entrieslimited resourcesmeager budgetpatchy distributionsparse graphsparse matrixsparse vegetation
Collocations
6 entriessparse crowdsparse datasparse distributionsparse populationsparse rainfallsparse vegetation
Inflections
2 entriesDerivations
2 entriessimilar
1 entriesSample sentences
10 total sentences available.
But rain has been sparse in Tanzania, as it has in neighboring East African nations, and meteorologists are warning of a prolonged dry season.
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Trees became sparse.
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If I wanted to learn Sumerian I would download a textbook or two, work my way through it, and also find university resources on the language, such as dictionaries and grammars hosted by universities. For a lot of dead languages, universities and university-quality scholarly websites host a ton of resources. Sumerian will be more sparse than Latin or Greek, maybe even than Old English, but I can't imagine there are no good free resources hosted by universities.
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