parity
英['pærɪtɪ]
美['pærəti]
- n. 平价；同等；相等
英英释意
- 1. (obstetrics) the number of live-born children a woman has delivered;
- "the parity of the mother must be considered"
- "a bipara is a woman who has given birth to two children"
- 2. (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
- 3. (computer science) abit 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 arriv
- 4. (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
- 5. functional equality