Dilute vs Sparse - What's the difference?
dilute | sparse |
To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water.
* Blackmore
To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
* Sir Isaac Newton
(stock market) To cause the value of individual shares to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.
To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
Having a low concentration.
Weak; reduced in strength due to dilution, diluted.
Having widely spaced intervals.
Not dense; meager.
(obsolete) To scatter; to disperse.
As verbs the difference between dilute and sparse
is that dilute is to make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water while sparse is to scatter; to disperse.As adjectives the difference between dilute and sparse
is that dilute is having a low concentration while sparse is having widely spaced intervals.dilute
English
Verb
(dilut)- Mix their watery store / With the chyle's current, and dilute it more.
- Lest these colours should be diluted and weakened by the mixture of any adventitious light.
- it dilutes easily
Adjective
(en adjective)- Clean the panel with a dilute , neutral cleaner.
See also
* (Concentration) * dilateReferences
* * ----sparse
English
Adjective
(er)Derived terms
* sparse array * sparse index * sparse matrixVerb
(spars)- (Spenser)