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Meaning of parity

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  parity
      n 1: (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has
           delivered; "the parity of the mother must be considered";
           "a bipara is a woman who has given birth to two children"
           [syn: {parity}, {para}]
      2: (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; "parity is often used to check the integrity of
         transmitted data"
      3: (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 [syn: {parity bit}, {parity}, {check bit}]
      4: (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 [syn: {parity},
         {conservation of parity}, {space-reflection symmetry},
         {mirror symmetry}]
      5: functional equality

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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