Sparse Meaning

/spɑːs/
C1

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adjHaving widely spaced intervals.

adjNot dense; meager; scanty

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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The old man's hair was very ____ on the top of his head.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Vegetation is very ____ in the desert due to the extreme lack of consistent rainfall and high heat.

Etymology tree Latin sparsusbor. English sparse Borrowed from Latin sparsus.

"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:
"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.:

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CEFR Practice Quiz
The old man's hair was very ____ on the top of his head.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Vegetation is very ____ in the desert due to the extreme lack of consistent rainfall and high heat.

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