"sparsify" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: sparsifies [present, singular, third-person], sparsifying [participle, present], sparsified [participle, past], sparsified [past]
Etymology: sparse + -ify Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sparse|ify}} sparse + -ify Head templates: {{en-verb}} sparsify (third-person singular simple present sparsifies, present participle sparsifying, simple past and past participle sparsified)
  1. (mathematics, transitive) To make (a graph or a matrix) sparse. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Mathematics
    Sense id: en-sparsify-en-verb-gz-Vme6Z Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ify Topics: mathematics, sciences

Inflected forms

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