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The act or process of testing whether a byte or other data structure has an even or odd number of bits set to the value of 1 it is used primarily to detect errors in data especially in memory banks or in data transmitted over a communications line The parity can be changed by assigning one bit in each data structure as the parity bit so that the total number of bits set to the value of 1 is odd odd parity or even even parity If parity is used for error checking the writing and reading systems must first agree on which type of parity odd or even to use if the reading system detects a deviation from the agreed parity it signals an error to be handled by the error handling processes of the system...
Sufficient cause
Sufficient cause, for non-appearance refers to the date on which the absence was made a ground for proceeding ex parte and cannot be stretched to rely upon other circumstances anterior in time, Tea Auction Ltd. v. Grace Hill Tea Industry, AIR 2007 SC 67.Sufficient cause is an expression which is found in various statues. It has been construed liberally in keeping with its ordinary dictionary meaning as adequate or enough. That is, any justifiable reason resulting in vacation has to be understood as sufficient cause. For instance economic difficulty or financial stringency or family reasons may compel a landlord to let out a building in his occupation. So long as it is found to be genuine and bona fide it would amount to vacating a building for sufficient cause, Surinder Singh Sibia v. Vijay Kumar Sood, AIR 1992 SC 1540 (1541): (1992) 1 SCC 70. [H.P. Urban Rent Control Act, 1987, s. 14(3), Proviso 2]The expression 'sufficient cause' cannot be cons-trued too liberally, merely because the...
Police duties
Police duties, the expression 'police duties' will include all the functions of the police in connection with the purpose of the Act and in the special context of the Act they will include the detection, prevention and investigation of offences and the other duties which have been specially imposed on them under the Act, Delhi Administration v. Ram Singh, AIR 1962 SC 63 (66): (1962) 2 SCR 694. [(English) Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act, 1956, s. 13(1) (3) and 2(i)]...
Revise
To look at again for the detection of errors to reeumlxamine to review to look over with care for correction as to revise a writing to revise a translation...
Hygroscopic
Of or pertaining to or indicated by the hygroscope not readily manifest to the senses but capable of detection by the hygroscope as glass is often covered with a film of hygroscopic moisture...
ethyl mercaptan
A gaseous substance C2H5SH used as an odorant in natural gas and propane to facilitate detection and serve as a warning of leaks...
Elude
To avoid slyly by artifice stratagem or dexterity to escape from in a covert manner to mock by an unexpected escape to baffle as to elude an officer to elude detection inquiry search comprehension to elude the force of an argument or a blow...
diskette
a data storage medium consisting of a small plastic disk coated with a thin layer of magnetizable material on one or both sides enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit It is used in a specially designed disk drive in which the disk is rotated at high speed and which stores data on the disk by causing changes in the direction of magnetization of the magnetic layer as the disk spins and as sequential locations on the disk pass under the read write head of the drive Reading of the data occurs in the reverse process by detection of the patterns of magnetization of the disk Such disks are used to store data or programs for a microcomputer...
Congo red
An artificial red dye from which the Congo group received its name It is also widely used either in aqueous solution or as test paper Congo paper for the detection of free acid which turns it blue...
police force
police force : a body of trained officers entrusted by a government with maintenance of public peace and order, enforcement of laws, and prevention and detection of crime ...
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