English-Thai Dictionary

parity

N ความเท่าเทียมกัน  ความเสมอภาค  equivalence equality eventness kwam-tao-tiam-kan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PARITY

n.[L. par, equal. See Pair and Peer. ] 1. Equality; as parity of reason.
2. Equality; like state or degree; as a parity of orders or persons.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PARITY

Par "i *ty, n. Etym: [L. paritas, fr. par, paris, equal: cf. F. parité. See Pair, Peer an equal. ]

 

Defn: The quality or condition of being equal or equivalent; A like state or degree; equality; close correspondence; analogy; as, parity of reasoning. "No parity of principle. " De Quincey. Equality of length and parity of numeration. Sir T. Browne.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

parity

par i ty 1 |ˈparitē ˈpɛrədi | ▶noun 1 the state or condition of being equal, esp. regarding status or pay: parity of incomes between rural workers and those in industrial occupations. • the value of one currency in terms of another at an established exchange rate. • a system of providing farmers with consistent purchasing power by regulating prices of farm products, usually with government price supports. 2 Mathematics (of a number ) the fact of being even or odd. • Physics the property of a spatial wave equation that either remains the same (even parity ) or changes sign (odd parity ) under a given transformation. • Physics the value of a quantum number corresponding to this property. • Computing a function whose being even (or odd ) provides a check on a set of binary values. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from late Latin paritas, from par ‘equal. ’

 

parity

par i ty 2 |ˈpɛrədi ˈparitē | ▶noun Medicine the fact or condition of having borne children. • the number of children previously borne: very high parity (six children or more ). ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from parous ‘having borne offspring ’ (back-formation from adjectives ending in -parous ) + -ity .

 

parity bit

par i ty bit ▶noun Computing a bit that acts as a check on a set of binary values, calculated in such a way that the number of 1s in the set plus the parity bit should always be even (or occasionally, should always be odd ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

parity

parity 1 |ˈparɪti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 the state or condition of being equal, especially as regards status or pay: parity of incomes between rural workers and those in industrial occupations. • equivalent value of one currency in terms of another at an established exchange rate. 2 Mathematics (of a number ) the fact of being even or odd. • Physics the property of a spatial wave equation that either remains the same (even parity ) or changes sign (odd parity ) under a given transformation. • Physics the value of a quantum number corresponding to parity. • Computing a function whose being even (or odd ) provides a check on a set of binary values. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from late Latin paritas, from par ‘equal ’.

 

parity

parity 2 |ˈparɪti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] Medicine the fact or condition of having borne children. • the number of children previously borne: very high parity (six children or more ). ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from parous ‘having borne offspring ’ (back-formation from adjectives ending in -parous ) + -ity .

 

parity bit

par ¦ity bit ▶noun Computing a bit which acts as a check on a set of binary values, calculated in such a way that the number of 1s in the set plus the parity bit should always be even (or occasionally, should always be odd ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

parity

parity noun we strive for a parity of wages: equality, equivalence, uniformity, consistency, correspondence, congruity, levelness, unity, coequality.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

parity

parity noun parity of incomes between rural workers and those in industrial occupations: equality, equivalence, uniformity, sameness, consistency, correspondence, congruity, congruence, levelness, unity, coequality, parallelism, evenness.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

parity

par i ty /pǽrəti /名詞 U ｟かたい書 ｠1 «…と » (給料 権利 力などが )同等であること (equality ) «with » .2 〘経 〙【他国通貨と 】同価値であること «with » .3 類似 .4 パリティ方式 [価格 ] 〘農家の生活必需品価格と比較して政府が農産物価格を決める方式, またはその価格 〙.