
1) Distributed 2) Far from abundant 3) Far from dense 4) Few and far between 5) Few and scattered 6) Hardly abundant 7) Hardly dense 8) Hardly filled in 9) Hardly packed 10) Hardly prevalent 11) Highly scattered 12) In short supply 13) Like a poor attendance 14) Like desert vegetation 15) Like Greenlanders
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1) Distributed 2) Lean 3) Meager 4) Meagre 5) Thin
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Sparse is a computer software tool designed to find possible coding faults in the Linux kernel. Unlike other such tools, this static analysis tool was initially designed to only flag constructs that were likely to be of interest to kernel developers, such as the mixing of pointers to user and kernel address spaces. Sparse checks for known problems...
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• (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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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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Sparse adjective [
Compar. Sparser ;
superl. Sparsest .] [ Latin
sparsus , past participle of
spargere to strew, scatter. Confer
Asperse ,
Disperse .]
1. Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there...
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Sparse transitive verb [ Latin
sparsus , past participle of
spargere to scatter.] To scatter; to disperse. [ Obsolete]
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[
adj] - not dense
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thin adjective not dense; `a thin beard`; `trees were sparse`
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