Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun parity

5 senses of parity

Sense 1
parity, para -- ((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")
       => pregnancy, gestation, maternity -- (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)

Sense 2
parity -- ((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")
       => mathematical relation -- (a relation between mathematical expressions (such as equality or inequality))

Sense 3
parity bit, parity, check bit -- ((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)
       => bit -- (a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states; "there are 8 bits in a byte")

Sense 4
parity, conservation of parity, space-reflection symmetry, mirror symmetry -- ((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)
       => conservation -- ((physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations)

Sense 5
parity -- (functional equality)
       => equivalence -- (essential equality and interchangeability)