sparsity

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English

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Etymology

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From sparse +‎ -ity.

Noun

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sparsity (usually uncountable, plural sparsities)

  1. The property of being sparse; sparseness.
    • 2020, Cleve Moler and Jack Little, A History of MATLAB, in: Proc. ACM Program. Lang., Vol. 4, No. HOPL, June 2020; doi:10.1145/3386331
      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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