Look up: sparse

1. sparse
   [adj] - not dense
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2. Sparse
   Sparse adjective [ Compar. Sparser ; superl. Sparsest .] [ Latin sparsus , past participle of spargere to strew, scatter. Confer Asperse , Disperse .] 1.
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3. Sparse
   Sparse transitive verb [ Latin sparsus , past participle of spargere to scatter.] To scatter; to disperse. [ Obsolete] Spenser.
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4. sparse
   1. Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population. ... 2. <botany> Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like. ... Origin: L. Sparsus, p.p. Of spargere to strew, scatter. Cf. Asp...
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5. sparse
   thin adjective not dense; `a thin beard`; `trees were sparse`
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6. sparse
   A matrix is sparse if many of its values are zero. A division of sample data into discrete bins (that is into a multinomial table) is sparse if many of the bins have no data in them. Contexts: econometrics
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7. Sparse
   • (superl.) Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population. • (v. t.) To scatter; to disperse. • (superl.) Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.
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8. sparse
   A sparse matrix (or vector, or array) is one in which most of the elements are zero. If storage space is more important than access speed, it may be preferable to store a sparse matrix as a list of (index, value) pairs or use some kind of hash scheme or associative memory. (1995-01-16)
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9. Sparse
   In computer science, `Sparse` is a tool designed to find possible coding faults in the Linux kernel.--> This static analysis tool differed from other such tools in that it was initially designed to flag constructs that were only likely to be of interest to kernel developers, e.g. mixing pointers to ...
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