sparse
English
/spɑːs/, /spɑːɹs/
adj
Definitions
- Having widely spaced intervals.
- Not dense; meager; scanty
- (maths) Having few nonzero elements
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sparsus.
Origin
Latin
sparsus
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- nonsparse English
- sparsely English
- sparsen English
- sparseness English
- sparsification English
- sparsifier English
- sparsify English
- sparsity English
- ultrasparse English
- unsparse English
- cōnspergō, conspargere Latin
- spargere Latin
- sparsus Latin
- cospargere Italian
- cospargimento Italian
- sparso Italian
- esparcir Spanish, Castilian
- esparso Portuguese
- spart Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- zbraz Albanian
- aspartu Aromanian