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Parity vs Affinity - What's the difference?

parity | affinity |

As nouns the difference between parity and affinity

is that parity is equality; comparability of strength or intensity while affinity is a natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.

parity

English

(wikipedia parity)

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

  • (uncountable) Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
  • * 2000 April 26, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Delta Guide , Pearson Education, unpaged:
    • Altogether, Microsoft claims a 99% feature parity between 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=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.}}
  • (mathematics, countable) 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.
  • (mathematics, countable) The classification of an element of a set with parity into one of the two sets.
    • The particles' parities can switch at random.
  • (physics, countable) Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
  • (games, countable) In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
    • Antonyms
    * chirality
    Derived terms
    * brand parity * parity bit

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) paritas, from

    Noun

    (parities)
  • (medicine, countable) The number of times a woman has given birth.
  • (agriculture, countable) The number of times a sow has farrowed.

    • affinity

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia affinity) (affinities)
  • A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
  • A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity. (e.g. sister).
  • A kinsman or kinswoman of such relationship. Affinal kinsman or kinswoman.
  • The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
  • * 1997 , Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865):
    • A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities' — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was '''guessing''' and ' interpreting , not observing or demonstrating.
  • Any romantic relationship.
  • Any passionate love for something.
  • (taxonomy) resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.
  • (geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
  • (chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
  • (medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
  • (computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses
  • (geometry) An automorphism of affine space.

    • Derived terms

    * affinity card * affinity fraud * affinity reagent * microaffinity