parity
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
(obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
the parity of the mother must be considered
Types & categories
- maternity hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
(mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity
parity is often used to check the integrity of transmitted data
Types & categories
- mathematical relation hypernym
- evenness hyponym
- oddness hyponym
Related & opposite
- mathematics domain topic
Sense 3 noun
(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
Types & categories
- bit hypernym
Related & opposite
- computing domain topic
Sense 4 noun
(physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system
Types & categories
- conservation hypernym
Related & opposite
- physics domain topic
Sense 5 noun
functional equality
Types & categories
- equivalence hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | parous |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | midwifery |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | maternity |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | mathematics |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | mathematical relation |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | evenness |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | oddness |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | computing |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | bit |
| 4 | domain topic | Related & opposite | physics |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | conservation |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | equivalence |