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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /spɑːs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /spɑːɹs/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)s

形容詞

sparse (comparative sparser, superlative sparsest)

1. Having widely spaced intervals.

   a sparse array, index, or matrix

   • 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58:

     The Leicester to Grimsby service will become hourly throughout (with some extensions to Cleethorpes as at present), while a new hourly Peterborough to Doncaster service via Spalding, Sleaford and Lincoln will join up two routes with a sparse service at present.

2. Not dense; meager; scanty
3. (mathematics) Having few nonzero elements

同意語

• (having widely spaced intervals): spread out, thin; see also Thesaurus:diffuse
• (meager): insufficient, paltry; see also Thesaurus:inadequate

派生語

関連する語

• sparge

参考

• thin out

動詞

sparse (third-person singular simple present sparses, present participle sparsing, simple past and past participle sparsed)

1. (obsolete) To disperse, to scatter.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:disperse

   • 1536, [Richard Morison], A Remedy for Sedition, London: […] Thomae Bertheleti […], →OCLC, signature F. i.:

     They began properly to ſparſe pretye rumours in the North, that no man ſhulde eate whyte breade, no man eate pygge, gooſe, or capon, without he agreed before with the kynge.

派生語

アナグラム

• parses, sarpes, repass, Speras, spaers, Aspers, Serpas, spaser, Spares, prases, Spears, aspers, Arpses, Presas, presas, passer, spears, spares

Participle

sparse

1. vocative masculine singular of sparsus