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sparsity en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English sparse Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English sparsity From sparse + -ity.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The property of being sparse; sparseness.
   • 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. 1958 August 14, “Closing of the Midland & Great Northern Line”, in Railway Magazine, pages 525-526:
   • And an operation on a mixture of sparse and full matrices produces a sparse result unless the operator ordinarily destroys sparsity. 2020 June 12, Cleve Moler and Jack Little, “A History of MATLAB”, in Proc. ACM Program. Lang., volume 4, number HOPL, →DOI, page 26:

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Translations (7)

bg рядкост (the property of being sparse) · fr sparsité (the property of being sparse) · hi विरलता (the property of being sparse) · es escasez (the property of being sparse) · de matrices: Dünnbesetztheit (the property of being sparse) · fr parcimonie (the property of being sparse) · de Seltenheit (the property of being sparse)