0 small in numbers or amount, often spread over a large area: --
a sparse beard
sparse vegetation/woodland
a sparse population/audience
1 small in number or amount and not dense or close together: --
a sparse vocabulary
sparse attendance
Run-length encoding, however, is an efficient representation for sparse matrices in non-functional languages.
It is associated with biotite and with sparse, small crystals of epidote.
The act of merging the sequences for their concordances creates a structure like that shown in figure 5; a deep, sparse tree.
While many varieties are represented, the samples seem to be somewhat sparse and uneven, and the sound quality spotty.
There is more of a sparse data problem with extracted grammars than with hand-designed grammars.
For this child, data are sparse and accuracy varies widely across sessions, making it difficult to decide which sessions to combine for meaningful comparison.
In prominence-driven stress, feet are sparse, appearing only on heavy syllables except for the initial foot in words with no heavy syllables.
Most of these approaches distinguish complements from adjuncts as a first step in order to avoid the sparse data problem.
