Word
Parity
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
par-i-ty
Definition
- n. - The quality or condition of being equal or equivalent; A
like state or degree; equality; close correspondence; analogy; as,
parity of reasoning.
- 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
- noun - (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
- 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
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