sparsity

English

Etymology

From sparse +‎ -ity.

Noun

sparsity (usually uncountable, plural sparsities)

  1. The property of being sparse; sparseness.
    • 1958 August, “Closing of the Midland & Great Northern Line”, in Railway Magazine, pages 525-526:
      It is this duplication of facilities which is mainly responsible for the poor loadings experienced on the Midland & Great Northern line, apart, of course, from the general sparsity of traffic in Northern Norfolk, and the fenlands around the Wash.
    • 2020 June 12, Cleve Moler and Jack Little, “A History of MATLAB”, in Proc. ACM Program. Lang.‎[1], volume 4, number HOPL, →DOI, page 26:
      And an operation on a mixture of sparse and full matrices produces a sparse result unless the operator ordinarily destroys sparsity.

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