sparse

adj
/spɑːs/UK/spɑːɹs/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sparsus.

  1. borrowed from sparsus

Definitions

  1. Having widely spaced intervals.

    • a sparse array, index, or matrix
  2. Not dense

    Not dense; meager; scanty

  3. Having few nonzero elements

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. To disperse, to scatter.

      • They began properly to ſparſe pretye rumours in the North, that no man ſhulde eate whyte breade, no man eate pygge, gooſe, or capon, without he agreed before with the kynge.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sparse. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01sparse02widely03great04fantastic05extraordinarily06extraordinary07exceptional08rare

A definitional loop anchored at sparse. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at sparse

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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