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sparsity

[spahr-si-tee] / ˈspɑr sɪ ti /




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Mr. Jones heightens the sense of unease with a style that favors sparsity and acoustic alertness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

From early years of rock sparsity - pulling apart the remnants of Joy Division's post-punk gloom and David Bowie's Low era - they bloomed into late-80s indie-pop heavyweights - defined by Smith's melancholy.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2024

Existing approaches often limit the locations of nonzero values by enforcing a sparsity pattern to simplify the search, but this limits the variety of sparse tensors that can be processed efficiently.

From Science Daily • Oct. 31, 2023

That philosophical reticence may make these paintings even more of a welcome disruption than their visual sparsity.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2022

Such books as that of Luchaire, on France in the reign of Philip Augustus, bring vividly before us the horrible condition of society in feudal times, and explain amply the sparsity of the population.

From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph