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单词 parity
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parity
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All things being equal, parity means, basically, equality. It’s used in finance, physics, math, and even sports. When people talk about parity in a football league, for example, they mean the teams are evenly matched. Go, evenly matched team, go!
Parity comes from the same Latin root as pair, which is par, for “equal.” Parity is an equal amount of something, or an equal rank or skill level between people or teams. During the Cold War, the word parity was used to describe the equal amount of resources the US and the USSR had. So now it also means an equal amount between enemies, which is probably why sportscasters love it.
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parody / parity

They're different, but when these words are said out loud it's hard to tell them apart. A parody is a silly spoof and parity is equality, and that's no joke.

A parody turns making fun of something into an art form. Imitating the way someone talks or writes is a parody. Broken down into its Greek roots, it's para for "beside," and ode as in "song," which forms paroidia for a "burlesque song or poem." A parody isn't as risqué as a burlesque, but it's definitely supposed to be funny. Here are some examples of the word:

"He's also a professed fan of the 1960s spy parody ‘Get Smart.'" (Washington Times)

"The online parody shows a player pretending to be J.J." (Los Angeles Times)

"From a Saturday Night Live hosting gig to a parody Twitter account, the ‘Girls' star is everywhere." (Time)

When there's parity, things are even-steven. Parity means equality. It even has Latin roots in par, which means, of course, equal. If a scale is balanced, there is parity.

It's used in finance:

"She said she thinks the euro will fall below parity against the U.S. dollar in the coming year." (Wall Street Journal)

In social contexts:

"None of this started out as a fight over gender parity, but now that it looks like one, you can be sure women will notice."

And sports:

"In most seasons, parity usually expires some time around November as the league's usual suspects take control." (Wall Street Journal)

They word parody probably has more fun than parity, which just likes to even things out. But there is parity between these words; they are both awesome.

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parity: parities
USAGE EXAMPLES
They “back tested” risk parity over periods such as the Great Depression and the postwar bond-bear market with similar results.
Wall Street Journal(Dec 30, 2016)
Contract workers excluded from that policy say they want parity — and more.
Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016)
On Thursday, the Palestinian statistics bureau said demographic parity would be reached by the end of 2017.
Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016)
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1n functional equality
Hyper
equivalence
essential equality and interchangeability
2n (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
Syn|Hyper
conservation of parity, mirror symmetry, space-reflection symmetry
conservation
(physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations
3n (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
parity is often used to check the integrity of transmitted data
Hypo|Hyper
evenness
the parity of even numbers (divisible by two)
oddness
the parity of odd numbers (not divisible by two)
mathematical relation
a relation between mathematical expressions (such as equality or inequality)
4n (computer science) a bit 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
Syn|Hyper
check bit, parity bit
bit
a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states
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n (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
the parity of the mother must be considered
Syn|Hyper
para
gestation, maternity, pregnancy
the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus
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