sparse — Dicionário de inglês

Adjetivo

1. Having widely spaced intervals.

   Exemplos

   a sparse array, index, or matrix

   Mais exemplos (1)

   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 two routes with a sparse service at present.

2. Not dense; meager; scanty

3. Having few nonzero elements

Verbo

1. To disperse, to scatter.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Exemplos

   Mais exemplos (1)

   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.

Adjetivo

1. not dense

   Sinônimos

   thin

   Exemplos

   a thin beard

   trees were sparse