sparse
Having widely spaced intervals.
Adjective
- Having widely spaced intervals.
- a sparse array, index, or matrix
- 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...
- Not dense; meager; scanty
- Having few nonzero elements
Origin
Etymology tree Latin sparsusbor. English sparse Borrowed from Latin sparsus.
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nonsparse sparse array sparsely sparsen sparseness sparse table sparsification sparsify sparsistency sparsistent sparsity ultrasparse unsparse
Verb
- To disperse, to scatter.
- 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...
Synonyms: besprenge broadcast desparple discuss disgregate disparkle disparple dispel disperple disperse distribute dwindle straggle flurr insperse instrew litter overshake resperse scatter squander sparble sparkle sparse