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Meaning of Sparsity | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The property of being sparse; sparseness.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

العربية الضّآلة
Български рядкост
Español escasez
Suomi harvuus
Français parcimonie sparsité
हिन्दी विरलता

Examples

“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.”
“And an operation on a mixture of sparse and full matrices produces a sparse result unless the operator ordinarily destroys sparsity.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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