Equity vs. Parity
Equitynoun
Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right".
Equitynoun
(legal) The power of a court of law having extra-statutory discretion, to decide legal matters and to provide legal relief apart from, though not in violation of, the prevailing legal code; in some cases, a court "sitting in equity" may provide relief to a complainant should the code be found either inapplicable or insufficient to do so.
Equitynoun
(legal) A right which accrues to a party in a transaction because of the nature of the transaction itself, and which is exercisable upon a change of circumstances or conditions; in other words, an equitable claim.
Equitynoun
(legal) Value of property minus liens or other encumbrances.
Equitynoun
The body of law which was developed in the English Court of Chancery, which Court had extra-statutory discretion, and is now administered alongside the common law of Britain.
Equitynoun
(business) Ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business.
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(accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from assets.
Equitynoun
(poker) A player's expected share of the pot.
Equitynoun
Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; fairness in determination of conflicting claims; impartiality.
Equitynoun
An equitable claim; an equity of redemption; as, an equity to a settlement, or wife's equity, etc.
Equitynoun
A system of jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it.
Equitynoun
the difference between the market value of a property and the claims held against it
Equitynoun
the ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation
Equitynoun
conformity with rules or standards;
Paritynoun
(uncountable) Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
Paritynoun
Senses related to classification into two sets.
Paritynoun
A set with the property of having all of its elements belonging to one of two disjoint subsets, especially a set of integers split in subsets of even and odd elements.
Paritynoun
The classification of an element of a set with parity into one of the two sets.
Paritynoun
(computing) The count of one bits in a value, reduced to even or odd or zero or one.
Paritynoun
Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
Paritynoun
In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
Paritynoun
Resemblance; analogy.
Paritynoun
The number of delivered pregnancies reaching viable gestational age, usually between 20-28 weeks
Paritynoun
The number of times a sow has farrowed.
Paritynoun
The quality or condition of being equal or equivalent; a like state or degree; equality; equivalence; close correspondence; analogy; as, parity of reasoning.
Paritynoun
Equivalence in value to the currency of another country.
Paritynoun
A property assigned to elementary particles, conceptualized as a form of symmetry, representing the fact that no fundamental distinctions can be observed between right-handed and left-handed systems of particles in their interactions, and supported by the typical observation that the total parity of a system is unchanged as particles are created or annihilated; however, certain interactions involving the weak force have been shown to violate the principle of conservation of parity.
Paritynoun
A property of the wave function of a system, which takes the value of +1 or -1, indicating whether the value of the wave function changes sign if each of the variables of the system is replaced by its negative.
Paritynoun
The condition of having borne a child or children, alive or dead.
Paritynoun
The property of being even or odd; as, 3 has odd parity, but 6 has even parity.
Paritynoun
The property of having an even or odd number of bits set to the value of 1 (as opposed to 0); - applied to bytes or larger groups of bits in a data structure. It is used mostly in the process of parity checking. The parity of a data structure can be changed by changing the value of the parity bit.
Paritynoun
(obstetrics) the number of live-born children a woman has delivered;
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(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
Paritynoun
(computer science) abit 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
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(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
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functional equality
