Inside the Universes

Words with a similar base: conservation_of_parity, parity, parity_bit

'parity'

[parity.n.01] as in: (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered

Examples:
the parity of the mother must be considered
a bipara is a woman who has given birth to two children

'parity'

[parity.n.02] as in: (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

Examples:
parity is often used to check the integrity of transmitted data

'parity'

[parity_bit.n.01] as in: (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'

[parity.n.04] as in: (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

'parity'

[parity.n.05] as in: functional equality

Origins

					parity (English)
└── parité (French)
    └── paritas (Latin)
        ├── par (Latin)
        └── pario (Latin)