sparsity

English

Etymology

From sparse +‎ -ity.

Noun

sparsity (usually uncountable, plural sparsities)

1. The property of being sparse; sparseness.
   • 2020, Cleve Moler and Jack Little, A History of MATLAB, in: Proc. ACM Program. Lang., Vol. 4, No. HOPL, June 2020; doi:10.1145/3386331

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

Translations

the property of being sparse

• Bulgarian: рядкост (bg) f (rjadkost)
• French: parcimonie (fr) f, sparsité (fr) f
• German: Seltenheit (de); matrices: Dünnbesetztheit
• Spanish: escasez (es) f