sparse population

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• sparse population — population which is very thin, low and spread out population …   English contemporary dictionary

• sparse´ness — sparse «spahrs», adjective, spars|er, spars|est. 1. thinly scattered; occurring here and there: »The sparse population of the country, sparse hair; ... an unorganised mob thick in one place, sparse in another (Walter Besant). SYNONYM(S): See syn …   Useful english dictionary

• sparse´ly — sparse «spahrs», adjective, spars|er, spars|est. 1. thinly scattered; occurring here and there: »The sparse population of the country, sparse hair; ... an unorganised mob thick in one place, sparse in another (Walter Besant). SYNONYM(S): See syn …   Useful english dictionary

• Sparse — Sparse, a. [Compar. {Sparser}; superl. {Sparsest}.] [L. sparsus, p. p. of spargere to strew, scatter. Cf. {Asperse}, {Disperse}.] 1. Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• sparse — [spa:s US spa:rs] adj [Date: 1700 1800; : Latin; Origin: sparsus spread out , from the past participle of spargere to scatter ] existing only in small amounts ▪ his sparse brown hair ▪ rural areas with sparse population >sparsely adv ▪ a… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• sparse — sparsely, adv. sparseness, sparsity /spahr si tee/, n. /spahrs/, adj., sparser, sparsest. 1. thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population. 2. not thick or dense; thin: sparse hair. 3. scanty; meager. [1715 25; < L spa …   Universalium

• sparse — /spas / (say spahs) adjective (sparser, sparsest) 1. thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population. 2. thin; not thick or dense: sparse hair. 3. scanty; meagre. {Latin sparsus, past participle, scattered} –sparsely, adverb –sparseness,… …  

• sparse — adj. thinly dispersed or scattered; not dense (sparse population; sparse greying hair). Derivatives: sparsely adv. sparseness n. sparsity n. Etymology: L sparsus past part. of spargere scatter …   Useful english dictionary

• sparse — adjective areas of sparse population Syn: scant, scanty, scattered, scarce, infrequent, few and far between; meager, paltry, skimpy, limited, in short supply Ant: abundant …   Thesaurus of popular words

• Population coding — Population encoding is a means by which information about something is encoded in a group of neurons. In population encoding, each neuron has a distribution of responses over some set of inputs, and the responses of many neurons may be combined… …   Wikipedia

• Sparse coding — The sparse code is a kind of neural code in which each item is encoded by the strong activation of a relatively small set of neurons. For each item to be encoded, this is a different subset of all available neurons.As a consequence, sparseness… …   Wikipedia