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SPARSITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sparsity mean?
• SPARSITY (noun)
The noun SPARSITY has 1 sense:
1. the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
Familiarity information: SPARSITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
spareness; sparseness; sparsity; thinness
Hypernyms ("sparsity" is a kind of...):
exiguity; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; poorness; scantiness; scantness (the quality of being meager)
Derivation:
sparse (not dense)
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