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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

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

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

She preferred cleanly poverty and honest sparsity to luxury on credit.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Hubbard, Elbert