(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

[ Syn: para ]

(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'

(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 1s or an even number of 1s; e.g., if the parity is odd then any group of bits that arrives with an even number of 1s must contain an error

[ Syn: parity bit , check 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

[ Syn: conservation of parity , space-reflection symmetry , mirror symmetry ]

functional equality