parity
Syllables: par·i·ty/ˈpæɹɪti/
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British/ˈpaɹɪtɪj/
parity noun: equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
Noun (1)
parity (countable and uncountable, plural parities)
- 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
- For all their frailty at the back, Arsenal possessed genuine menace in attack and they carved through Chelsea with ease to restore parity nine minutes before half-time. Aaron Ramsey's pass was perfection and Gervinho took the unselfish option to set up Van Persie for a tap-in.2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport
- 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.
- The classification of an element of a set with parity into one of the two sets.
- The particles' parities can switch at random.
- The count of one-valued bits in a value, reduced to even or odd or zero or one.
- Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
- In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
- Resemblance; analogy.
Noun (2)
parity (plural parities)
- The number of delivered pregnancies reaching viable gestational age, usually between 20-28 weeks.
- The number of times a sow has farrowed.
parity meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
parity in Hindi
- math: classification into one set or the other
- समता samtā
- math: set whose elements all belong to one of exactly two disjoint subsets
- समता samtā
parity in Tamil
- இணை, சமச்சீரான, சமமான நிலை, சமம், சரிநிகர், நிகரி
parity in Urdu
- برابری, متوازیت
parity in Bengali
- সমতা, সাদৃশ্য, বেতনের ক্ষেত্রে
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- parity in Malayalam
- തുല്യത, സമത്വം, സാമാന്തരികത്വം
- parity in Kannada
- ಪರಸ್ಪರ ಸಮಾನತೆ, ಸಾಮ್ಯ, ಅನುರೂಪತೆ, ಹೋಲಿಕೆ
- parity in Sinhala
- සමත්වය
- parity in Malay
- kesamaan, pariti
- parity in Indonesian
- paritas, kesepadanan, kesamaan
- parity in Persian
- برابری barâbari
Examples of parity in a sentence
- If they expect to maintain parity, then an adequate budget for spec ops has to be available.
- “We’re in a spot now where we’re a lot closer to cost parity.”
- An ultradiscrete limit of the special solutions is studied by the procedure of ultradiscretization with parity varialbes.
Antonyms of parity
Forms of parity
| plural | parities |
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Origin of parity
From Middle French parité, from Late Latin paritās, from Latin pār (“equal”). Equivalent to pari- + -ty.
From Latin paritas, from pariō (“give birth”).
Words formed from parity
Phrases with parity
Words that rhyme with parity
- polarity
- particularity
- clarity
- familiarity
- similarity
- arity
- collinearity
- imparity
- peculiarity
- linearity
- nonlinearity
- insularity
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Questions about parity
- What does parity mean?
- Parity means equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
- What is parity in Hindi?
- Parity in Hindi is समता (samtā). See Parity meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is parity?
- Parity is a noun.
- How do you pronounce parity?
- Parity is pronounced /ˈpæɹɪti/ (UK).
- What is the plural of parity?
- The plural of parity is parities.
Words near parity in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: parity (page history and authors); parity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); parity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Parity (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); parity (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); parity (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); parity (Sinhala Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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