Usually means: Containing very few elements, items.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word sparse:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sparse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sparse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sparse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sparse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sparse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sparse, sparse: Wordnik
  7. sparse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sparse: Wiktionary
  9. sparse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sparse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sparse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sparse: Dictionary.com
  13. sparse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sparse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sparse (disambiguation), Sparse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sparse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sparse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sparse: Rhymezone
  19. sparse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sparse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sparse: Free Dictionary
  22. sparse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sparse: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. sparse: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sparse: Glossary of research economics
  2. sparse: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sparse: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. sparse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sparse: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sparsely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having widely spaced intervals.
adjective:  Not dense; meager; scanty
adjective:  (mathematics) Having few nonzero elements
verb:  (obsolete) To disperse, to scatter.

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