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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sparse/spɑːs/
▶adjective thinly dispersed or scattered.
– derivatives
sparsely adverb,
sparseness noun,
sparsity noun.
sparsely adverb,
sparseness noun,
sparsity noun.
– origin C18: from L. sparsus, past part. of spargere ‘scatter’.
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