parity
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English [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From French parité, from Latin paritas, from pār (“equal”)
Noun [edit]
parity (countable and uncountable; plural parities)
- (uncountable) Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
- 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, BBC Sport:
- 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.
- 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, BBC Sport:
- (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.
- (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.
- (physics, countable) Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
- (games, countable) In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
Antonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
equality, comparability
math: set whose all elements belong to one of exactly two disjoint subsets
math: classification into one set or the other
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physics: symmetry of interaction
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reversi: last move within a sector
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Latin paritas, from pariō (“give birth”)
Noun [edit]
parity (plural parities)
- (medicine, countable) The number of times a woman has given birth.
- (agriculture, countable) The number of times a sow has farrowed.
Translations [edit]
The number of times a sow has farrowed
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