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adj. Occurring, growing, or settled at widely spaced intervals; not thick or dense.

adj. Having widely spaced intervals.

adj. Not dense; meager.

v. To scatter; to disperse.

adj. Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together.

adj. Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.

v. To scatter; to disperse.

Thinly scattered; dispersed round about; existing at considerable intervals; as used of population or the like, not dense.

In botany, scattered; placed distantly or irregularly without any apparent or regular order: applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, etc.

In zoology, spare or remote, as spots or other markings: scattered irregularly; few or scanty, as hairs or other appendages.

To disperse; scatter.

adj. not dense

"He said the court's order, which he described as "sparse," potentially leaves the door open for the governor to return with a more-specific letter spelling out reasons for removal."

distributed   

thin out   

sparse matrix    sparse index    sparse array   

scattered    scatter    disperse    infrequent    few   

carse    farce    marse    parse   

scanty    bushy    luxuriant    dense    close-cropped    wispy    feathery    curly    silky    wiry