Borrowed fromLatinsparsus.
sparse (comparativesparser,superlativesparsest)
- Having widely spaced intervals.
asparse array, index, or matrix
2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, inModern Railways, page58: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 asparse service at present.
- Notdense;meager;scanty
- (mathematics) Having fewnonzeroelements
having widely spaced intervals
having few nonzero elements
sparse (third-person singular simple presentsparses,present participlesparsing,simple past and past participlesparsed)
- (obsolete) Todisperse, toscatter.
- Synonyms:seeThesaurus:disperse
1536,[Richard Morison],A Remedy for Sedition, London: […] Thomae Bertheleti […],→OCLC, signature F. i.:They began properly toſparſe 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.
- parses,sarpes,repass,Speras,spaers,Aspers,Serpas,spaser,Spares,prases,Spears,aspers,Arpses,Presas,presas,passer,spears,spares
sparse
- third-personsingular past historic ofspargere
sparse
- third-personsingular past historic ofsparire
sparse f pl
- feminineplural ofsparso
sparse
- vocativemasculinesingular ofsparsus
sparse
- third-personsingular simpleperfectindicative ofsparge
