Having widely spaced intervals. / Not dense; meager; scanty / (mathematics) Having few nonzero elements

(obsolete) To disperse, to scatter.

(uncountable) The state or quality of being sparse. / (countable, rare) The result or product of being sparse.

In a scattered or sparse manner; widely apart; thinly.

simple past tense and past participle of sparse

plural of sparseness

The act or process of making something sparse / (mathematics) The reduction to zero of elements of a matrix

plural of sparse array

(programming) An array in which most of the values are zero.

(computer science) A data structure that can answer range maximum or range minimum queries on an immutable list of values in constant time, and other range queries in logarithmic time.