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Definition: Sparsity |
SparsityNoun1. The property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Math | Instances of the longest common subsequence problem in which the number of matches is small compared to the product of the lengths of the input strings. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SparsitySynonyms: spareness (n), sparseness (n). (additional references) |
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Books | |
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| "Sparsity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sparsity" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sparsity | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sparsity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | рядкост (curiosity, freak, rareness, rarity, scarcity, virtu), оскъдица (dearth, scarcity), недостатъчност (inadequacy, scarcity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | řídkost (rareness, rarity, thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Seltenheit (curiosity, infrequence, rareness, rarity, scarceness, scarcity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "לילות (dilution, sparseness, thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tiarkaght (rareness, scaniness, scarceness, shortness), gennid (scarceness, spareness, tightness of money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arsityspay редкость (curio, curiosity, rara avis, rareness, rarity, scarcity, sparseness, sparsness, white crow). (various references) gleshet (sparseness). (various references) seyreklik (infrequency, rareness, rarity, sparseness, thinness), kıtlık (dearth, drought, exiguity, failure, famine, paucity, penury, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, slimness, sparseness), aralıklı olma (sparseness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-p-r-s-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: rapists. | |
-2 letters: parity, pastis, pastry, prissy, rapist, satyrs, sistra, sitars, spaits, spirts, sprats, sprays, sprits, stairs, stirps, straps, strays, strips, stripy, tapirs. | |
-3 letters: airts, apsis, arsis, artsy, aspis, astir, atrip, pairs, paris, parts, party, pasts, pasty, patsy, pitas, prats, prays, priss, rasps, raspy, saris, satis, satyr, sayst, sitar, spait, spars, spats, spays, spirt. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-p-r-s-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: pityriases, pityriasis, sympatries. | |
+3 letters: antipyreses, antipyresis, panegyrists, physiatrist. | |
+4 letters: astrophysics, dispensatory, physiatrists, psychiatries, psychiatrist, sympathizers. | |
+5 letters: arsenopyrites, astrophysical, attorneyships, cryptanalysis, hyperesthesia, papyrologists, parasynthesis, perissodactyl, polygraphists, presbyterials, prostacyclins, psychiatrists, secretaryship, stylographies, superloyalist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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