(bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
(bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
(Canada) A block of school during which one does not have a class.
“This is due to the relative sparsity of development in the post-medieval period.”
“The remoteness of the islands and the sparsity of the population makes Yap one of the last bastions for true Micronesian culture, unsullied by outside influences.”
“The use of sparsity in source separation has begun during the years 2000 with the power increase in computers.”