sparse

/spษ‘หs/

IPA: /S P AA1 R S/

verb
  1. 1

    To scatter; to disperse.

adjective
  1. 1

    Having widely spaced intervals.

    โ€œa sparse array, index, or matrixโ€

  2. 2

    Not dense; meager; scanty

  3. 3

    Having few nonzero elements

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sparse