Advertisement
Advertisement
parity
1[ par-i-tee ]
noun
- equality, as in amount, status, or character.
She and her brother always seemed like day and night to me, but I'm starting to see a real parity of nature between them.
- Finance.
- equivalence in value in the currency of another country.
- equivalence in value at a fixed ratio between moneys of different metals.
- Physics.
- a property of a wave function, expressed as +1 or −1 and noting the relation of the given function to the function formed when each variable is replaced by its negative, +1 indicating that the functions are identical and −1 that the second function is the negative of the first.
- Also called intrinsic parity. a number +1 or −1 assigned to each kind of elementary particle in such a way that the product of the parities of the particles in a system of particles multiplied by the parity of the wave function describing the system is unchanged when particles are created or annihilated.
- a system of regulating prices of farm commodities, usually by government price supports, to provide farmers with the same purchasing power they had in a selected base period.
- Computers. the condition of the number of items in a set, particularly the number of bits per byte or word, being either even or odd: used as a means for detecting certain errors.
parity
2[ par-i-tee ]
noun
- the condition or fact of having borne offspring.
parity
1/ ˈpærɪtɪ /
noun
- the condition or fact of having given birth
- the number of children to which a woman has given birth
parity
2/ ˈpærɪtɪ /
noun
- equality of rank, pay, etc
- close or exact analogy or equivalence
- finance
- the amount of a foreign currency equivalent at the established exchange rate to a specific sum of domestic currency
- a similar equivalence between different forms of the same national currency, esp the gold equivalent of a unit of gold-standard currency
- equality between prices of commodities or securities in two separate markets
- physics
- a property of a physical system characterized by the behaviour of the sign of its wave function when all spatial coordinates are reversed in direction. The wave function either remains unchanged ( even parity ) or changes in sign ( odd parity )
- a quantum number describing this property, equal to +1 for even parity systems and –1 for odd parity systems P See also conservation of parity
- maths a relationship between two integers. If both are odd or both even they have the same parity; if one is odd and one even they have different parity
- (in the US) a system of government support for farm products
parity
/ păr′ĭ-tē /
- The property of a physical system that entails how the system would behave if the coordinate system were reversed, each dimension changing sign from x, y, z to −x, −y, −z. If a system behaves in the same way when the coordinate system is reversed, then it is said to have even parity ; if it does not, it is said to have odd parity. For bosons, the antiparticle of any given particle has the same parity, odd or even, as that particle. For fermions, the antiparticle has the opposite parity.
- See also conservation law
- A quantum number, either +1 or −1, that mathematically describes this property.
- The number of 1's in a piece of binary code, generally taken as the quality of odd or even rather than as a specific number. The parity of packets of binary data is often transmitted along with the data to help detect whether the value of any bits has been altered.
Discover More
Word History and Origins
Origin of parity1
Origin of parity2
Discover More
Word History and Origins
Origin of parity1
Origin of parity2
Discover More
Example Sentences
Instead, America has experienced an extended period of national parity between the two parties.
Ironically, TV networks have put their streaming ad businesses on a path to parity with their linear businesses by removing parity between their streaming and linear ad prices.
Today, six of his 16 direct reports are women and Citigroup’s board of directors is nearly at gender parity.
While new appointments in 2019 came close to gender parity, businesses were far from achieving racial representation last year.
It’s still a long way from parity, but it shows that when Republican women run in incumbent-less races, they have a good chance of getting the nomination.
On one hand, the rising drinking among women is a sign of parity.
In the last three decades, courts have begun to apply gender parity to the awarding of alimony.
With more women achieving financial parity with men, more women are able to take up luxury hobbies men have long enjoyed.
If you run the numbers a different way and measure purchasing power parity, Russia's economy is larger than Italy's.
Even at the age bracket where men and women appear closest in frequency, there is nothing remotely close to masturbation parity.
The laws prohibiting these do not forbid the lottery, nor can it be included under them by parity of reasoning.
Grand serjeanty is of course included by parity under military service.
Freight thus moves freely in every direction and all markets are held on an absolute parity.
On every sound principle of rate making, the two cities ought to be placed on a parity.
In her eyes he was on a parity with the fakirs, the mullahs, the religious mendicants of her adopted country.
Advertisement
Discover More
Related Words
Word of the Day
[ak-suh-lot-l ]
Meaning and examplesStart each day with the Word of the Day in your inbox!
By clicking "Sign Up", you are accepting Dictionary.com Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policies.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse