Hypertext Webster Gateway: "parity"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Parity \Par"i*ty\, n. [L. paritas, fr. par, paris, equal: cf. F.
parit['e]. See {Pair}, {Peer} an equal.]
The quality or condition of being equal or equivalent; A like
state or degree; equality; close correspondence; analogy; as,
parity of reasoning. ``No parity of principle.'' --De
Quincey.

Equality of length and parity of numeration. --Sir T.
Browne.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

parity
n 1: (obstetrics) the number of live-born children a woman has
delivered; "the parity of the mother must be
considered"; "a bipara is a woman who has given birth to
two children" [syn: {para}]
2: (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 parity
3: (computer science) an error detection procedure in which a
bit (0 or 1) 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
[syn: {parity bit}]
4: (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 [syn: {conservation
of parity}, {space-reflection symmetry}, {mirror symmetry}]
5: functional equality


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