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Equality vs Parity - What's the difference?

equality | parity |

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

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (fact of being equal ): equivalence parity,

    Antonyms

    * (fact of being equal ): difference, inequality * (equal treatment of people ): discrimination, inequality nonequivilence

    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.