sparsity

plural sparsities

1. uncountableusuallyThe property of being sparse; sparseness.

   And an operation on a mixture of sparse and full matrices produces a sparse result unless the operator ordinarily destroys sparsity.

   2020 June 12, Cleve Moler and Jack Little, “A History of MATLAB”, in Proc. ACM Program. Lang., volume 4, number HOPL, →DOI, page 26

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   It is this duplication of facilities which is mainly responsible for the poor loadings experienced on the Midland & Great Northern line, apart, of course, from the general sparsity of traffic in Northern Norfolk, and the fenlands around the Wash.

   1958 August 28, “Closing of the Midland & Great Northern Line”, in Railway Magazine, pages 525-526