parity
/ˈpæɹɪti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The number of delivered pregnancies reaching viable gestational age, usually between 20-28 weeks.
Example Sentences
- "Altogether, Microsoft claims a 99% feature parity between 32-bit and 64-bit editions."
- "For all their frailty at the back, Arsenal possessed genuine menace in attack and they carved through Chelsea with ease to restore parity nine minutes before half-time. Aaron Ramsey's pass was perfection and Gervinho took the unselfish option to set up Van Persie for a tap-in."
- "Day after day, for 10 days, Stones and his client rose before dawn, dressed themselves in clothes of a drab dry-leaf green and set out on the trail. By the time the sun was high in the sky and the gunmen were soaked in sweat, there arose – in their minds, at least – a sense of parity, of worthy opposition, equal opportunity in this game of life and death, even if only one party has chosen to play."
- "Parity is always preserved in such operations."
- "The particles' parities can switch at random."
Etymology
From Middle French parité, from Late Latin paritās, from Latin pār (“equal”). Equivalent to pari- + -ty.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpæɹɪti/
- British English: /ˈpæɹɪti/