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sparsity

[spahr-si-tee] / ˈspɑr sɪ ti /




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Mr. Jones heightens the sense of unease with a style that favors sparsity and acoustic alertness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

From early years of rock sparsity - pulling apart the remnants of Joy Division's post-punk gloom and David Bowie's Low era - they bloomed into late-80s indie-pop heavyweights - defined by Smith's melancholy.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024

For example, researchers sometimes "prune" unnecessary pieces of the machine-learning models by replacing some values in the tensor with zeros, creating sparsity.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2023

That philosophical reticence may make these paintings even more of a welcome disruption than their visual sparsity.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022

There is no more effectual way of giving a traveler a vivid impression of the sparsity of settlement in a rural district than to let him lose his way.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 by Various




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