Parity vs Penetrate - What's the difference?

As a noun parity

is (uncountable) equality; comparability of strength or intensity or parity can be (medicine|countable) the number of times a woman has given birth.

As a verb penetrate is

to enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.

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.

penetrate

English

(Penetration)

Verb

(penetrat)

To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.

Light penetrates darkness.

* {{quote-book, year=1879, title=The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph

, author=Th Du Moncel, page=166, publisher=Harper , passage=He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.}}

(figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.

I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.

* Ray

things which here were too subtile for us to penetrate

To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.

to penetrate one's heart with pity

* M. Arnold

The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.

(Shakespeare)

To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.

To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus. (rfex)

Derived terms

* penetration * penetrable

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