parity


parity - noun

  • (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
  • (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
  • (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

    • parity - thesaurus

    para  

    Scrabble score for parity

    p is 3 a is 1 r is 1 i is 1 t is 1 y is 4
    Scrabble score = 11

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