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parity

English

🔊 functional equality
🔊 (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
🔊 (mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity
“parity is often used to check the integrity of transmitted data”
🔊 (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
“the parity of the mother must be considered”
🔊 (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