Word.ws English Dictionary

sparsification

sparsification noun: the act of making something more sparse, especially a graph.

Noun

sparsification (plural sparsifications)

  1. The act of making something more sparse, especially a graph.
  2. The concentration of flora density nearest the tarmac (blacktop) versus the proportional absence of flora in the wider terrain (the grouping of trees near the road).

Forms of sparsification

pluralsparsifications

Origin of sparsification

From sparse + -ification.

Questions about sparsification

What does sparsification mean?
Sparsification means the act of making something more sparse, especially a graph.
What part of speech is sparsification?
Sparsification is a noun.
What is the plural of sparsification?
The plural of sparsification is sparsifications.

Words near sparsification in the dictionary

  1. sparsentan
  2. sparser
  3. sparsest
  4. Sparsh
  5. Sparsholt
  6. sparsification
  7. sparsifications
  8. sparsified
  9. sparsifier
  10. sparsifiers
  11. sparsifies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sparsification (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sparsification.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sparsification. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.