Meaning of Parity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The number of delivered pregnancies reaching viable gestational age, usually between 20-28 weeks.
   countable
2. Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
   uncountable
3. The number of times a sow has farrowed.
   countable
4. Senses related to classification into two sets.
   countable
5. 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.
   countable
6. The classification of an element of a set with parity into one of the two sets.
   countable
7. The count of one bits in a value, reduced to even or odd or zero or one.
   countable, uncountable
8. Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
   countable
9. In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
   countable
10. Resemblance; analogy.
    countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Altogether, Microsoft claims a 99% feature parity between 32-bit and 64-bit editions.”

“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.”

“Parity is always preserved in such operations.”

“The particles' parities can switch at random.”

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