名詞 parity:

1. (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
   同義詞：parity, para
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
   同義詞：parity
3. (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
   同義詞：parity bit, parity, check bit
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
   同義詞：parity, conservation of parity, space-reflection symmetry, mirror symmetry
5. functional equality
   同義詞：parity

1. A binary check digit;for example, a parity bit.
   一個二進制校驗位，例如奇偶位。
2. A bit added to a binary code that indicates parity and is used to check the integrity of data.
   奇偶校驗位加在二進制碼上的一個標明奇偶數的位，用于檢驗數據的完整性
3. The two currencies have now reached parity.
   這兩種貨幣現已達到同等價值。