Parity is a concept of equality of status or functional equivalence. It has several different specific definitions. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Logo en:Wiktionary Wiktionary is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...
parity (mathematics): In mathematics, parity indicates whether a number is even or odd.
parity (telecommunication): In this usage, the number of '1' bits in a binary value is counted. Parity is even if there are an even number of '1' bits, and odd otherwise.
In medicine, parity is defined as the number of pregnancies that a woman delivers past 24 weeks. A grandmultiparous woman is a woman who has delivered four or more infants who have achieved a gestational age of 24 weeks or more.
In finance, interest rate parity refers to the notion that the differential in interest rates between two countries is equal to the differential between the forward exchange rate and the spot exchange rate.
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Parity is an important idea in quantum mechanics because the wavefunctions which represent particles can behave in different ways upon transformation of the coordinate system which describes them.
In a famous experiment by C. Wu, the non-conservation of parity in beta decay was demonstrated.
The electromagnetic and strong interactions are invariant under the paritytransformation.
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