English Dictionary: Parity | by the DICT Development Group |
3 results for Parity | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Parity \Par"i*ty\, n. [L. paritas, fr. par, paris, equal: cf. F. parit[82]. See {Pair}, {Peer} an equal.] The quality or condition of being equal or equivalent; A like state or degree; equality; close correspondence; analogy; as, parity of reasoning. [bd]No parity of principle.[b8] --De Quincey. Equality of length and parity of numeration. --Sir T. Browne. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
parity {word} to reveal errors in storage (in {RAM} or {disk}) or transmission. Even (odd) parity means that the parity bit is set so that there are an even (odd) number of one bits in the word, including the parity bit. A single parity bit can only reveal single bit errors since if an even number of bits are wrong then the parity bit will not change. Moreover, it is not possible to tell which bit is wrong, as it is with more sophisticated {error detection and correction} systems. See also {longitudinal parity}, {checksum}, {cyclic redundancy check}. (1996-03-01) |