Parity - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈpærətɪ|
Brit.
|ˈpærɪtɪ|
noun
- (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered (syn: para)
- (physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system
- functional equality
the parity of the mother must be considered
- (mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parityparity is often used to check the integrity of transmitted data
- (computer science) a bit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a 0 or 1 is added to each group of bits so that it will have either an odd number of 1's or an even number of 1's; e.g., if the parity is odd then any group of bits that arrives with an even number of 1's must contain an error- (physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system
- functional equality
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Women workers are demanding parity with their male colleagues.
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