parity

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæɹɪti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æɹɪti
• Homophone: parody (flapping, weak vowel merger)
• Hyphenation: par‧i‧ty

Etymology 1

From Middle French parité, from Late Latin paritas, from Latin pār (“equal”). Equivalent to pari- +‎ -ty.

Noun

parity (countable and uncountable, plural parities)

1. (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”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     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.

2. Senses related to classification into two sets.
   1. (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.

   2. (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.

   3. (computing) The count of one bits in a value, reduced to even or odd or zero or one.
   4. (physics, countable) Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
3. (games, countable) In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
4. Resemblance; analogy.

Antonyms

• chirality

Derived terms

• brand parity
• parity bit
• parity game
• potty parity
• purchasing power parity

 

Translations

equality, comparability

• Bulgarian: равенство (bg) n (ravenstvo)
• Catalan: paritat f
• Czech: parita (cs) f
• Dutch: pariteit (nl) f
• Finnish: vastaavuus (fi)
• French: parité (fr) f, parité (fr) f
• German: Parität (de) f
• Indonesian: paritas (id), kesepadanan, kesamaan (id)
• Italian: parità (it) f
• Malay: kesamaan (ms), pariti
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: паритет (paritet), мужыранлык (mužyranlyk)

• Persian: برابری (fa) (barâbari)
• Portuguese: paridade (pt) f
• Russian: парите́т (ru) m (paritét), ра́венство (ru) n (rávenstvo)
• Spanish: paridad (es) f

math: set whose elements all belong to one of exactly two disjoint subsets

• Bulgarian: четност f (četnost)
• Czech: parita (cs) f
• Dutch: pariteit (nl) f
• French: parité (fr) f
• Hindi: समता (hi) (samtā)
• Italian: parità (it) f
• Malay: kesamaan (ms), pariti
• Portuguese: paridade (pt) f
• Russian: парите́т (ru) m (paritét)
• Spanish: paridad (es) f

math: classification into one set or the other

• Czech: parita (cs)
• Finnish: pariteetti (fi)
• French: parité (fr) f
• Hindi: समता (hi) (samtā)
• Italian: parità (it) f
• Malay: kesamaan (ms), pariti
• Portuguese: paridade (pt) f
• Russian: парите́т (ru) m (paritét)
• Spanish: paridad (es) f

physics: symmetry of interaction

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宇稱 / 宇称 (yǔchèn)

• Czech: parita (cs)
• Dutch: pariteit (nl) f
• Finnish: pariteetti (fi)
• German: Parität (de) f
• Malay: kesamaan (ms), pariti
• Russian: чётность (ru) f (čótnostʹ)

reversi: last move within a sector

Etymology 2

From Latin paritas, from pariō (“give birth”).

Noun

parity (plural parities)

1. (medicine, countable) The number of delivered pregnancies reaching viable gestational age, usually between 20-28 weeks
2. (agriculture, countable) The number of times a sow has farrowed.

Translations

the number of times a sow has farrowed

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• Armenian: սերունդի քանակություն (serundi kʻanakutʻyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胎次

• Czech: parita (cs) f
• Dutch: pariteit (nl) f
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• German: Parität (de) f, Graviditätszahl f
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: paritas (id)
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• Portuguese: número de parições m
• Russian: чи́сленность пото́мства f (číslennostʹ potómstva)
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