It makes things easier if your matrix is sparse.
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Sparse
//spɑːɹs//
Synonyms for "sparse" (117 found)
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Closest matches (24)
Strong matches (35)
Related words (58)
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2 entriesderived
6 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
68 translations across 34 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- yl adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- yl adj (not dense; meager)
Albanian
3 entries- imët adj (not dense; meager)
- rralluar adj (not dense; meager)
- shpërndarë adj (having widely spaced intervals)
Arabic
1 entries- ضَئِيل adj (not dense; meager)
Assamese
2 entries- তাকৰীয়া adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- সেৰেঙা adj (not dense; meager)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- seyrək adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- seyrək adj (not dense; meager)
Bashkir
2 entries- һирәк adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- һирәк adj (not dense; meager)
Belarusian
1 entries- рэ́дкі adj (having widely spaced intervals)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ря́дък adj (having widely spaced intervals)
Catalan
4 entries- clar adj (not dense; meager)
- dispers adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- escàs adj (not dense; meager)
- espars adj (having widely spaced intervals)
Church Slavic
3 entries- rijédak adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- rédak adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- рѣдъкъ adj (having widely spaced intervals)
Czech
2 entries- řídký adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- řídký adj (not dense; meager)
Dutch
4 entries- dun adj (not dense; meager)
- mager adj (not dense; meager)
- schaars adj (not dense; meager)
- verspreid adj (having widely spaced intervals)
Estonian
1 entries- hõre adj (having widely spaced intervals)
Finnish
2 entries- harva adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- harva adj (not dense; meager)
French
2 entries- clairsemé adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- épars adj (having widely spaced intervals)
Georgian
4 entries- თხელი adj (not dense; meager)
- მეჩხერი adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- მეჩხერი adj (not dense; meager)
- მწირი adj (not dense; meager)
German
3 entries- dünn adj (not dense; meager)
- spärlich adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- spärlich adj (not dense; meager)
Hebrew
1 entries- דליל adj (having widely spaced intervals)
Hindi
2 entries- विरल adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- विरल adj (not dense; meager)
Hungarian
4 entries- gyér adj (not dense; meager)
- ritka adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- ritkás adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- szórványos adj (having widely spaced intervals)
Ingrian
1 entries- harva adj (not dense; meager)
Italian
2 entries- spargolo adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- sparso adj (having widely spaced intervals)
Macedonian
2 entries- редок adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- штур adj (not dense; meager)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- denn adj (not dense; meager)
Polish
1 entries- rzadki adj (having widely spaced intervals)
Portuguese
3 entries- disperso adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- esparso adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- ralo adj (not dense; meager)
Romanian
1 entries- rar adj (not dense; meager)
Russian
3 entries- разрежённый adj (having few nonzero elements)
- ре́дкий adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- ре́дкий adj (not dense; meager)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ре́дак adj (having widely spaced intervals)
- рије́дак adj (having widely spaced intervals)
Slovak
1 entries- riedky adj (having widely spaced intervals)
Spanish
1 entries- disperso adj (having widely spaced intervals)
Swedish
1 entries- gles adj (having widely spaced intervals)
Ukrainian
1 entries- рідки́й adj (having widely spaced intervals)
Vietnamese
2 entries- thưa adj (not dense; meager)
- thưa thớt adj (not dense; meager)
Sample 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.
Source: tatoeba (10913219)
Trees became sparse.
Source: tatoeba (11826068)
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.
Source: tatoeba (11839563)
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