sparseness

sparse | American Dictionary

sparse
adjective[ -er/-est only ]
us/spɑrs/
small in number or amount and not dense or close together:
plants with sparse foliage
sparse attendance
a sparse vocabulary

sparsely

adverbus/ˈspɑrs·li/
This area is very sparsely settled because there isn’t much water.

Examples of sparse

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Two stimulus variants were explored: temporally sparse and rapidly contrast reversing.
In this example, many points in joint dimensions are required, and the conventional sparse grid would have placed too few points there.
Psychotherapies specifically designed for bipolar disorder have been sparse but emerging, particularly in the last 5 years.
The initial population is assumed to be sparse and dominated by small types (which is consistent with fossil data).
Robots in the work cell equipped in a sparse area affect each other.
Robots in the work cell equipped in a sparse area usually share a motion path, resources and workspace.
Despite the sparse crowd, this observer believed that the rite did not lack merit.
Most of these approaches distinguish complements from adjuncts as a first step in order to avoid the sparse data problem.
In prominence-driven stress, feet are sparse, appearing only on heavy syllables except for the initial foot in words with no heavy syllables.
For this child, data are sparse and accuracy varies widely across sessions, making it difficult to decide which sessions to combine for meaningful comparison.
There is more of a sparse data problem with extracted grammars than with hand-designed grammars.
While many varieties are represented, the samples seem to be somewhat sparse and uneven, and the sound quality spotty.
The act of merging the sequences for their concordances creates a structure like that shown in figure 5; a deep, sparse tree.
It is associated with biotite and with sparse, small crystals of epidote.
Run-length encoding, however, is an efficient representation for sparse matrices in non-functional languages.
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