sparsity
Example Sentences
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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
The GP-to-patient ratio already trails the national average by 18%, it added, with recruitment hampered by "confusion around funding, poor estates and a sparsity of applications".
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2023
By contrast, the hardware accelerator the MIT researchers designed, called HighLight, can handle a wide variety of sparsity patterns and still perform well when running models that don't have any zero values.
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
At receptions where the sparsity of the company permits the lady of the house to be seen, she is commonly visible on a sofa, surrounded by visitors in a half- circle.
From Venetian Life by Howells, William Dean