Parity
Origin 1
From French parité, from Latin paritas, from pÄr ("equal")
Full definition of parity
Noun
parity
(countable and uncountable; plural paritys)- (uncountable) Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
- 2000 April 26, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Delta Guide, Pearson Education, unpaged:Altogether, Microsoft claims a 99% feature parity between 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
- 2011, October 29, Phil McNulty, Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal, For all their frailty at the back, Arsenal possessed genuine menace in attack and they carved through Chelsea with ease to restore parity nine minutes before half-time. Aaron Ramsey's pass was perfection and Gervinho took the unselfish option to set up Van Persie for a tap-in.
- (mathematics, 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.
- (mathematics, countable) The classification of an element of a set with parity into one of the two sets.The particles' parities can switch at random.
- (physics, countable) Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
- (games, countable) In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
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Origin 2
From Latin paritas, from pariÅ ("give birth")