parities

Noun

parity (countable and uncountable, plural parities)

1. (uncountable) Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
   • Altogether, Microsoft claims a 99% feature parity between 32-bit and 64-bit editions.2000 April 26, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Delta Guide, Pearson Education, unpaged
2. (countable) A set with the property of having all of its elements belonging to one of two disjoint subsets, especially a set of integers split in subsets of even and odd elements.
   • Parity is always preserved in such operations.
3. (countable) The classification of an element of a set with parity into one of the two sets.
   • The particles' parities can switch at random.
4. The count of one-valued bits in a value, reduced to even or odd or zero or one.
5. (countable) Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
6. (countable) In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.

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