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/spɑːs/ · spar·se
verb
- To scatter; to disperse. The crowd sparse when the fire alarm sounded.
- To spread or scatter something over a surface. The seeds sparse evenly across the field.
adjective
- Having widely spaced intervals. A sparse array is one with many empty cells.
- Not dense; meager; scanty. The sparse attendance at the concert was disappointing.
- Having few nonzero elements. The sparse matrix made the calculations much faster.
Did you know? The word 'sparse' is often used in computer science to describe data structures with few nonzero elements, such as sparse matrices and sparse arrays.