In a scattered or sparse manner; widely apart; thinly.

Having widely spaced intervals. / Not dense; meager; scanty / (mathematics) Having few nonzero elements

(obsolete) To disperse, to scatter.

(uncountable) The state or quality of being sparse. / (countable, rare) The result or product of being sparse.

The act or process of making something sparse / (mathematics) The reduction to zero of elements of a matrix

simple past tense and past participle of sparse

plural of sparseness

(computer science) A data structure that can answer range maximum or range minimum queries on an immutable list of values in constant time, and other range queries in logarithmic time.

(programming) An array in which most of the values are zero.

plural of sparse array