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comparative sparser, superlative sparsest
Having widely spaced intervals. quotations examples
The Leicester to Grimsby service will become hourly throughout (with some extensions to Cleethorpes as at present), while a new hourly Peterborough to Doncaster service via Spalding, Sleaford and Lincoln will join up two routes with a sparse service at present.
2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58
Not dense; meager; scanty examples
(mathematics) Having few nonzero elements examples
third-person singular simple present sparses, present participle sparsing, simple past and past participle sparsed
(obsolete) To disperse, to scatter. quotations
They began properly to ſparſe pretye rumours in the North, that no man ſhulde eate whyte breade, no man eate pygge, gooſe, or capon, without he agreed before with the kynge.
1536, [Richard Morison], A Remedy for Sedition, London: […] Thomae Bertheleti […], signature F. i.