parity
Equality; comparability of strength or intensityEquality; comparability of strength or intensity.
» There is no parity amongst people.
Meaning
9 senses(uncountable)Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
Parität
парите́тparitét, ра́венствоrávenstvo
functional equality
Senses related to classification into two sets.
(countable)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.
Parity is always preserved in such operations.
парите́тparitét
(countable)The classification of an element of a set with parity into one of the two sets.
The particles' parities can switch at random.
(countable, uncountable)The count of one-valued bits in a value, reduced to even or odd or zero or one.
(countable)Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
Parität
чётностьčótnostʹ
(countable)In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
(countable, uncountable)Resemblance; analogy.
The number of delivered pregnancies reaching viable gestational age, usually between 20-28 weeks.
The number of times a sow has farrowed.
Parität, Graviditätszahl
чи́сленность пото́мстваčíslennostʹ potómstva
(obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
Examples
6 sentencesThere is no parity amongst people.
I hope that there will be parity amongst people someday.
Women will never gain parity with men in a field that few women wish to enter.
But many activists say women have a long way to go before achieving parity and equal rights with men.
Guterres, who referred to himself as “a proud feminist,” also called for dismantling the “patriarchy” and moving toward gender parity.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 4
By meaning 2
Origin
From Middle French parité, from Late Latin paritās, from Latin pār (“equal”). Equivalent tFrom Middle French parité, from Late Latin paritās, from Latin pār (“equal”). Equivalent to pari- + -ty.
From Latin paritas, from pariō (“give birth”).
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Forms
plural: paritiesSynonyms
6 synonyms- (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:conservation of parityspace-reflection symmetrymirror symmetry
- (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered:para
- (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:parity bitcheck bit
Antonyms
1 antonymsWord family
9 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable