sparse

CEFRC1

/spɑːs/

adjective · verb

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It makes things easier if your matrix is sparse.
With sparse exceptions, drug trafficking gangs tend to align politically with the right.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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a sparse array, index, or matrix
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.

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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.
1536, [Richard Morison], A Remedy for Sedition, London: […] Thomae Bertheleti […], →OCLC, signature F. i.
The Leicester to Grimsby service will become hourly throughout (with some extensions to Cleethorpes as at present), while a new hourly Peterborough to Doncaster service via Spalding, Sleaford and Lincoln will join up two routes with a sparse service at present.
2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58

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Borrowed from Latin sparsus.