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Noun parity has 5 senses

parity, para - (obstetrics) the number of live-born 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"
--₁ is a kind of pregnancy, gestation, maternity
parity - (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
--₂ is a kind of mathematical relation
parity bit, parity, check bit - (computer science) abit 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
--₃ is a kind of bit
parity, conservation of parity, space-reflection symmetry, mirror symmetry - (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
--₄ is a kind of conservation
parity - functional equality
--₅ is a kind of equivalence