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sparsity

sparsity noun: the property of being sparse; sparseness.

Noun

sparsity (usually uncountable, plural sparsities)

  1. (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, “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

sparsity meaning in Hindi and Malayalam

sparsity in Hindi

the property of being sparse
विरलता viraltā

sparsity in Malayalam

വിരളം, സ്വല്പം

Forms of sparsity

pluralsparsities

Origin of sparsity

From sparse + -ity.

Questions about sparsity

What does sparsity mean?
Sparsity means the property of being sparse; sparseness.
What is sparsity in Hindi?
Sparsity in Hindi is विरलता (viraltā). See Sparsity meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sparsity?
Sparsity is a noun.
What is the plural of sparsity?
The plural of sparsity is sparsities.

Words near sparsity in the dictionary

  1. sparsifying
  2. sparsing
  3. sparsistency
  4. sparsistent
  5. sparsities
  6. sparsity
  7. sparsomycin
  8. sparstolonin
  9. sparstone
  10. sparstones
  11. Spart

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sparsity (page history and authors); sparsity (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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.

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