parity
US: /ˈpɛɹəti/
UK: /pˈæɹɪti/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
parity /'pæriti/- danh từ
- sự ngang hàng, sự ngang bậc
- sự tương đương sự tương tự, sự giống nhau
- (thương nghiệp) sự ngang giá
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun (plural parities)1 [U] ~ (with sb/sth)
~ (between A and B) (formal) the state of being equal, especially the state of having equal pay or status: Prison officers are demanding pay parity with the police force. + In many professions women have yet to achieve anything like parity at the higher levels.
2 [U, C] (finance) the fact of the units of money of two different countries being equal: to achieve parity with the dollar
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 equality, equivalence, consistency, uniformity, par, likeness, similarity, analogy, congruity, similitude, conformity, congruence:
The ministers agreed that they would observe parity of power amongst themselves at the conference.
2 proportion, parallelism, analogy, balance, correspondence:
We are trying to maintain parity between the Deutschmark and the pound sterling.
Concise dictionary
parities'pærətɪnoun
+(obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
+(mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity
+(computer science) a bit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a 0 or 1 is added to each group of bits so that it will have either an odd number of 1's or an even number of 1's; e.g., if the parity is odd then any group of bits that arrives with an even number of 1's must contain an error
+(physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system
+functional equality
