different between parity vs sameness

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæ??ti/
• Rhymes: -æ??ti

See also

• parody

Etymology 1

From Middle French parité, from Late Latin paritas, from Latin p?r (“equal”)

Noun

parity (countable and uncountable, plural parities)

1. (uncountable) Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
   • 2000 April 26, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Delta Guide, Pearson Education, unpaged:

     Altogether, Microsoft claims a 99% feature parity between 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
2. Senses related to classification into two sets.
   1. (mathematics, countable) 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.

      Parity is always preserved in such operations.

   2. (mathematics, countable) The classification of an element of a set with parity into one of the two sets.

      The particles' parities can switch at random.

   3. (computing) The count of one bits in a value, reduced to even or odd or zero or one.
   4. (physics, countable) Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
3. (games, countable) In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
4. Resemblance; analogy.

Antonyms

• chirality

Derived terms

• brand parity
• parity bit

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin paritas, from pari? (“give birth”)

Noun

parity (plural parities)

1. (medicine, countable) The number of delivered pregnancies reaching viable gestational age, usually between 20-28 weeks
2. (agriculture, countable) The number of times a sow has farrowed.

Translations

English

Etymology

From same +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?se?mn?s/
• Hyphenation: same?ness

Noun

sameness (plural samenesses)

1. The quality of being the same; identity.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sameness

   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Chapter XXXIV, p. 391, [1]

     All of them agreed that the working-classes must be kept in their place; and all of them perceived that American Democracy did not imply any equality of wealth, but did demand a wholesome sameness of thought, dress, painting, morals, and vocabulary.

   • 1997, Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus, translated by John E. Woods, New York: Vintage, 1999, Chapter XX, p. 182,

     However strange it may sound, it always seemed to me […] that Adrian's laughter-filled friendship with Schildknapp had something to do with the sameness of their eye color

2. The state of being equivalent; equality.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:equality

3. A tiring lack of variety; monotony.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tedium

   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book IV, Chapter II, [2]

     […] in the time when day follows day in dull, unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine,—it is then that despair threatens […]

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