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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
parity check
–noun Computers.
| a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit), to see if the value is even or odd. |
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| parity bit
n. Computer Science A bit added to a binary code that indicates parity and is used to check the integrity of data. |
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| parity bit | |
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| (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 |
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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This
parity bit storage, communications
An extra bit added to a byte or word to reveal errors.
See parity.
(1996-03-01)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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