Equality vs Parity - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The fact of being equal.
(uncountable, mathematics) The fact of being equal, of having the same value.
(uncountable) The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.
(uncountable) Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
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(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.
(mathematics, countable) The classification of an element of a set with parity into one of the two sets.
(physics, countable) Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
(games, countable) In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
(medicine, countable) The number of times a woman has given birth.
(agriculture, countable) The number of times a sow has farrowed.
In uncountable terms the difference between equality and parity
is that equality is the equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences while parity is equality; comparability of strength or intensity.equality
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
Synonyms
* (fact of being equal ): equivalence parity,Antonyms
* (fact of being equal ): difference, inequality * (equal treatment of people ): discrimination, inequality nonequivilenceparity
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(wikipedia parity)Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
- Altogether, Microsoft claims a 99% feature parity between 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
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- Parity is always preserved in such operations.
- The particles' parities can switch at random.