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parity

1 of 1noun
/ˈpɛ.rə.ti/
Forms:parities
1

a state in which two or more things are equal

  • The company aims to achieve parity in salaries between male and female employees.
  • The financial agreement seeks to establish parity between the two partner organizations.
  • Efforts were made to achieve parity in access to healthcare services across different regions.
  • The new rules were designed to bring parity to the competitive sports league.
  • They discussed ways to achieve parity in funding for rural and urban schools.
2

(physics) the idea that the laws of physics should remain the same if to switch left and right or up and down

3

(computer) an extra bit added to a binary code to ensure the accuracy of data transmission or storage

4

(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

5

(obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered

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