Etymograph

English

sparsify

From sparse + -ify.

Formed from sparse + -ify

Latin sparsus ‘scattered, strewn, sprinkled’

English sparse

Today it means

verb To make (a graph or a matrix) sparse.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sparsify”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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