Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - parity
Parity
parity
1. n. 1 equality or equal status, esp. as regards status or pay. 2 parallelism or analogy (parity of reasoning). 3 equivalence of one currency with another; being at par. 4 (of a number) the fact of being even or odd. 5 Physics (of a quantity) the fact of changing its sign or remaining unaltered under a given transformation of coordinates etc. Etymology: F parit{eacute} or LL paritas (as PAR(1)) 2. n. Med. 1 the fact or condition of having borne children. 2 the number of children previously borne. Etymology: formed as -PAROUS + -ITY
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I. noun (plural -ties) Etymology: Latin paritas, from par equal Date: 1608 the quality or state of being equal or equivalent, 2. equivalence of a commodity price expressed in one currency to its price expressed in another, equality of purchasing power established by law between different kinds of money at a given ratio, an equivalence between farmers' current purchasing power and their purchasing power at a selected base period maintained by government support of agricultural commodity prices, 4. the property of an integer with respect to being odd or even , b. the state of being odd or even used as the basis of a method of detecting errors in binary-coded data, ~ bit, the property of oddness or evenness of a quantum mechanical function, the symmetry of behavior in an interaction of a physical entity (as a subatomic particle) with that of its mirror image, II. noun Etymology: -parous Date: 1878 the state or fact of having borne offspring ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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