sparsity — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The property of being sparse; sparseness.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Examples

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   It is this duplication of facilities which is mainly responsible for the poor loadings experienced on the Midland & Great Northern line, apart, of course, from the general sparsity of traffic in Northern Norfolk, and the fenlands around the Wash.

   And an operation on a mixture of sparse and full matrices produces a sparse result unless the operator ordinarily destroys sparsity.

Noun

1. the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness

   Synonyms

   sparsenesssparenessthinness

   Broader terms

   meagernessmeagrenessleannesspoornessscantinessscantnessexiguity