EGAVE

parity

About 3.78 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
  2. noun Senses related to classification into two sets. 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.
  3. noun 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.
  4. noun The classification of an element of a set with parity into one of the two sets.
    The particles' parities can switch at random.
  5. noun The count of one-valued bits in a value, reduced to even or odd or zero or one.
  6. noun Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
  7. noun In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
  8. noun Resemblance; analogy.

Similar words

parity bit mirror symmetry conservation of parity space-reflection symmetry equivalence equivalency equivalent equality comparability equal

Often followed by

of with in and bit between is check for

Word family

parities

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