sparse

About 3.00 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having widely spaced intervals.

   a sparse array, index, or matrix

2. adjective Not dense; meager; scanty
3. adjective Having few nonzero elements
4. verb To disperse, to scatter.

Similar words

thin distributed scattering scattered disperse dissipation dispersion scatter dispersal piecemeal

Often followed by

and population in matrix vegetation or data to hair

Word family

sparsely sparseness sparsenesses sparser sparsest sparsities sparsity