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How to pronounce sparsity in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms spareness, sparseness, thinness
Type of exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness
Derivation sparse

Examples of sparsity

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Yet, despite the sparsity of human life, millions still call this place home.
From the forbes.com
This sparse matrix is often randomly generated, subject to the sparsity constraints.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The sparsity of graves in the early period may suggest partial cremation.
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The experiment can be replicated, or the sparsity-of-effects principle can often be exploited.
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A sparsity which he predicted might mean there are no American medallists at all on the track next summer.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The second is the sparsity of sites, compared to Mann et al.
From the scienceblogs.com
Another concept that affects safe navigation is the sparsity of detailed depth data from high resolution sonar systems.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Sustained winds were likely higher, but due to the sparsity of recording stations, few official records exist.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Payne added that the main threat to the species was their sparsity of numbers which meant they do not get a chance to meet in the wild.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Sparseness: the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
  • In the subfield of numerical analysis, a sparse matrix is a matrix populated primarily with zeros . The term itself was coined by Harry M. Markowitz.
  • The inverse of density. Thus, a table that is 10% dense would be 90% sparse.