[par.i.ty] n, pl -ties [L paritas, fr. par equal] (ca. 1609) 1: the quality or state of being equal or equivalent
2. a: equivalence of a commodity price expressed in one currency to its price expressed in another b: equality of purchasing power established by law between different kinds of money at a given ratio
3: an equivalence between farmers' current purchasing power and their purchasing power at a selected base period maintained by government support of agricultural commodity prices
4. a: the property of an integer with respect to being odd or even "3 and
7. have the same ~" b (1): the state of being odd or even used as the basis of a method of detecting errors in binary-coded data (2): parity bit
5: the property of oddness or evenness of a quantum mechanical function
6: the symmetry of behavior in an interaction of a physical entity (as a subatomic particle) with that of its mirror image
[2]parity n [-parous] (1878): the state or fact of having borne offspring; also: the number of children previously borne