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When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.
James Cronin

Meaning of "parity" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PARITY

From Late Latin pāritās.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PARITY

parity  [ˈpærɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Parity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PARITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of parity in the English dictionary

The first definition of parity in the dictionary is equality of rank, pay, etc. Other definition of parity is close or exact analogy or equivalence. Parity is also the amount of a foreign currency equivalent at the established exchange rate to a specific sum of domestic currency.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PARITY


charity
ˈtʃærɪtɪ
clarity
ˈklærɪtɪ
disparity
dɪˈspærɪtɪ
familiarity
fəˌmɪlɪˈærɪtɪ
imparity
ɪmˈpærɪtɪ
iteroparity
ˌɪtərəʊˈpærɪtɪ
multiparity
ˌmʌltɪˈpærɪtɪ
nonparity
ˌnɒnˈpærɪtɪ
nulliparity
ˌnʌlɪˈpærɪtɪ
omniparity
ˌɒmnɪˈpærɪtɪ
oviparity
ˌəʊvɪˈpærɪtɪ
ovoviviparity
ˌəʊvəʊˌvaɪvɪˈpærɪtɪ
polarity
pəʊˈlærɪtɪ
popularity
ˌpɒpjʊˈlærɪtɪ
primiparity
ˌprɪmɪˈpærɪtɪ
scissiparity
ˌsɪsɪˈpærɪtɪ
semelparity
ˈsɛməlˌpærɪtɪ
singularity
ˌsɪŋɡjʊˈlærɪtɪ
solidarity
ˌsɒlɪˈdærɪtɪ
viviparity
ˌvɪvɪˈpærɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARITY

parish
parish church
parish clerk
parish council
parish hall
parish magazine
parish priest
parish pump
parish records
parish register
parish school
Parishad
parishen
parishioner
Parisian
parison
parisyllabic
parities
paritor
parity check

WORDS THAT END LIKE PARITY

angularity
authority
cellularity
circularity
complementarity
granularity
hilarity
interdisciplinarity
irregularity
modularity
molarity
muscularity
nonlinearity
peculiarity
planarity
rarity
registered charity
regularity
similarity
unfamiliarity
vulgarity

Synonyms and antonyms of parity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PARITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «parity» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of parity

Translation of «parity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PARITY

Find out the translation of parity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of parity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «parity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

平等
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

igualdad
570 millions of speakers

English

parity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

समता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التكافؤ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

четности
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

paridade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সমতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

parité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pariti
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gleichstellung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

同等
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

동등
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Keseimbangn
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chẵn lẻ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சமநிலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

समानता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

parite
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

parità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

parzystości
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

парності
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

paritate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ισοτιμία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gelykheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

paritet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

paritet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of parity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PARITY»

The term «parity» is quite widely used and occupies the 28.246 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PARITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «parity» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «parity» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about parity

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10 QUOTES WITH «PARITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word parity.
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Charles Bass
What are the implications of a China that may be on nuclear parity with the United States?
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Ginny Brown-Waite
While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.
3
Chris Christie
You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.
4
Connie Chung
You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity.
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Seymour Cray
Parity is for farmers.
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James Cronin
When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.
7
Jay Griffiths
I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue as serious as climate change when one article is actually gibberish masked in pseudoscience and the other is well informed and accurate.
8
Charles Jencks
I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.
9
Deborah Copaken Kogan
This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.
10
Thomas E. Mann
With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARITY»

Discover the use of parity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to parity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Parity Nonconservation in Atomic Phenomena
He considers the effects of space-inversion and time-reversal violations in atoms, molecules, and condensed matter. First published in Russian in 1981, and translated from the 1988 second edition. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc.
Khriplovich, 1991
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Parity and War: Evaluations and Extensions of The War Ledger
The contributors to this volume examine and analyze cases as diverse as the peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union, the presence of interstate war in South America in the last century and the absence thereof--despite domestic war--in this ...
Jacek Kugler, Douglas Lemke, 1996
3
Gender Quotas, Parity Reform, and Political Parties in France
In Improving Women's Political Representation, Katherine A. R. Opello investigates the timing and nature of politicians' decisions to improve women's political representation.
Katherine A. R. Opello, 2006
4
Introduction to Risk Parity and Budgeting
The first part of the book gives a theoretical account of portfolio optimization and risk parity. The author discusses modern portfolio theory and offers a comprehensive guide to risk budgeting.
Thierry Roncalli, 2013
5
Parity Democracy: Women's Political Representation in Fifth ...
Drawing on extensive interviews, as well as on European and French legal documents, Praud and Dauphin show that although these reforms have not dramatically boosted women's representation in the National Assembly, they have set in motion a ...
Jocelyne Praud, Sandrine Dauphin, 2010
6
Purchasing Power Parity and Exchange Rates: Theories, ...
Evolution of PPP theory; Modern PPP theory and practice; Selected PPP studies.
Lawrence H. Officer, 1982
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Parity and Prestige in English Secondary Education
are the same, and if, as far as possible, the buildings are good in each case, then you get in practice the parity for which the teachers are quite rightly asking'. She promised that no further copies of the pamphlet would be printed, and the ...
Olive Banks, 2013
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Network Communications Technology
The following methods can be used to detect an error: • Parity Check or Vertical Redundancy Check (VRC) • Block Check Character (BCC) • One's Complement of the Sum • Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) Parity Check The simplest error ...
Ata Elahi, 2001
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Uncovered Interest Parity (EPub)
2006 International Monetary Fund WP/O6/96 IMF Working Paper Il\/[F Institute Uncovered Interest Parityl Prepared by Peter Isard 01 April 2006 Abstract This paper provides an overview of the uncovered interest parity assumption. It traces the ...
Mr. Peter Isard, 2006
10
Effects of Hybridization, Feeding Behavior, and Parity Rates ...
Mosquitoes in the Culex pipiens complex are principal vectors of West Nile virus (WNV) in the Northeastern United States.
Linda-Lou O'Connor, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term parity is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Has geek culture finally embraced gender parity?
Girls can be nerdy too … Star Wars enthusiasts dress up as “Chew's Angels” during the 2015 Comic-Con International Convention in San ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Study: Grid parity likely for Indian solar projects in another 3 years
Declining capital costs, increase in efficiency, affinity with utility-scale projects and investment despite long-term RoI are all contributing to solar ... «Greentech Lead, Jul 15»
3
Diversity and Parity in Theatre: Notes from the Dramatists Guild …
While discussing the importance of parity it was pointed out that only 22.18% of playwrights who where produced in the past three years in the ... «San Diego Free Press, Jul 15»
4
Risk dis-Parity? US Treasury volatility creates headache
Volatility in the US Treasury market at the end of 2014 could be a taste of the next financial panic. And risk parity, a hedge fund strategy that ... «Campden FB, Jul 15»
5
Bar Council finds gender parity for barristers 'unlikely to ever be …
The Bar Council has published two reports into gender diversity at the Bar highlighting challenges facing female barristers and finding that on ... «Legal Business, Jul 15»
6
The time for gender parity in the workplace is now
The World Economic Forum's "Global Gender Gap Report 2014" [PDF] estimates that the world will not achieve gender parity in the workplace until 2095 — a full ... «MinnPost, Jul 15»
7
After 25 years, Germany still hasn't reached parity
A new study shows that while Germany's eastern states have caught up to western ones in many respects, there are still some differences. «Deutsche Welle, Jul 15»
8
EUR/USD points to parity by year-end – Deutsche Bank
... a full QE program in reverse”. “This potential 'QT' is important to their view over time. Nearer term they continue to target parity by year-end”. «FXStreet, Jul 15»
9
Euro to Reach Dollar Parity by Second Quarter 2016: BNP
BNP Paribas SA Foreign-Exchange Strategist Michael Sneyd says the euro will fall to parity with the dollar by the first or second quarter of 2016 ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
10
Will parity rule C-USA West again in 2015?
Conference USA West Division coaches spent a good portion of last year's media day pumping up how wide open and crazy the West would ... «Monroe News Star, Jul 15»

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