· (obstetrics) the number of liveborn 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"

Synonym(s): para

Hypernym(s): pregnancy, gestation, maternity

· (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"

Hypernym(s): mathematical_relation

· (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

Synonym(s): parity_bit, check_bit

Hypernym(s): bit

· (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

Synonym(s): conservation_of_parity, space-reflection_symmetry, mirror_symmetry

Hypernym(s): conservation

· functional equality

Hypernym(s): equivalence