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parity

/par-i-tee/US // ˈpær ɪ ti //UK // (ˈpærɪtɪ) //

奇偶性,奇偶比,奇偶校验,奇偶比值

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : equality, as in amount, status, or character.
    • : equivalence; correspondence; similarity; analogy.
    • : Finance. equivalence in value in the currency of another country.equivalence in value at a fixed ratio between moneys of different metals.
    • : Physics. a property of a wave function, expressed as +1 or −1 and noting the relation of the given function to the function formed when each variable is replaced by its negative, +1 indicating that the functions are identical and −1 that the second function is the negative of the first.Also called intrinsic parity. a number +1 or −1 assigned to each kind of elementary particle in such a way that the product of the parities of the particles in a system of particles multiplied by the parity of the wave function describing the system is unchanged when particles are created or annihilated.
    • : a system of regulating prices of farm commodities, usually by government price supports, to provide farmers with the same purchasing power they had in a selected base period.
    • : Computers. the condition of the number of items in a set, particularly the number of bits per byte or word, being either even or odd: used as a means for detecting certain errors.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounequality, balance

Examples

  • Instead, America has experienced an extended period of national parity between the two parties.

  • Ironically, TV networks have put their streaming ad businesses on a path to parity with their linear businesses by removing parity between their streaming and linear ad prices.

  • Today, six of his 16 direct reports are women and Citigroup’s board of directors is nearly at gender parity.

  • While new appointments in 2019 came close to gender parity, businesses were far from achieving racial representation last year.

  • It’s still a long way from parity, but it shows that when Republican women run in incumbent-less races, they have a good chance of getting the nomination.

  • On one hand, the rising drinking among women is a sign of parity.

  • In the last three decades, courts have begun to apply gender parity to the awarding of alimony.

  • With more women achieving financial parity with men, more women are able to take up luxury hobbies men have long enjoyed.

  • If you run the numbers a different way and measure purchasing power parity, Russia's economy is larger than Italy's.

  • Even at the age bracket where men and women appear closest in frequency, there is nothing remotely close to masturbation parity.

  • The laws prohibiting these do not forbid the lottery, nor can it be included under them by parity of reasoning.

  • Grand serjeanty is of course included by parity under military service.

  • Freight thus moves freely in every direction and all markets are held on an absolute parity.

  • On every sound principle of rate making, the two cities ought to be placed on a parity.

  • In her eyes he was on a parity with the fakirs, the mullahs, the religious mendicants of her adopted country.