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noun
Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Senses related to classification into two sets.
A set with the property of having all of its elements belonging to one of two disjoint subsets, especially a set of integers split in subsets of even and odd elements.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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noun
Senses related to classification into two sets.
The classification of an element of a set with parity into one of the two sets.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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noun
Senses related to classification into two sets.
The count of one bits in a value, reduced to even or odd or zero or one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Senses related to classification into two sets.
Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: games
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noun
Resemblance; analogy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The number of delivered pregnancies reaching viable gestational age, usually between 20-28 weeks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
The number of times a sow has farrowed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
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noun
functional equality
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: equivalence
noun
(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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: conservation of parity, space-reflection symmetry, mirror symmetry
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: conservation
noun
(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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: parity bit, check bit
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Broader terms: bit
noun
(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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: mathematical relation
Narrower terms: evenness, oddness
noun
(obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: para
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pregnancy, gestation, maternity
History
From Middle French parité, from Late Latin paritās, from Latin pār (“equal”). Equivalent to pari- + -ty.
From Latin paritas, from pariō (“give birth”).
Across languages
58 source translations are retained for this English entry.
