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Home Dictionary Name: parityparity check
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...
parity bit
The bit within a data structure which is assigned a value of 1 or 0 so as to make the parity7 of the data structure odd or even Data structures may or may not have parity bits dpending on whether the system does or does not perform parity checking The most commonly used parity bit is the eigth higher order bit of a byte which is used when data transmission uses only the 7 lower order bits of each byte as significant data some memory systems use a ninth bit as a parity bit for each eight bits one byte of significant data in memory...
Parity
Parity, means an act providing for road construction to bring each county in the state to 'parity', required all counties to be brought in the same condition regarding aid in road building, 'parity' meaning equality, Words and Phrases, Vol. 31; South Malabar Gramin Bank v. Coordination Committee of South Malabar Gramin Bank Employees' Union, (2001) 4 SCC 101....
Parity
The quality or condition of being equal or equivalent a like state or degree equality equivalence close correspondence analogy as parity of reasoning...
parity checking
The process of performing a parity check...
Assay
Assay, [fr. exigere, Lat., to test] of weights and measures, examining weights and measures by clerks of markets, etc., Blount. Also the testing and proving of coins, metals, etc. By the (English) Gold and Silver Wares Act, 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 22), s. 2, partly repealed by the (English) Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27), it is felony to forge or counterfeit any assay mark. As to assay of foreign imported plate, see 46 & 47 Vict. c. 55, s. 10; 4 Edw. 7, c. 6; and 7 Edw. 7, c. 13, s. 5 see PLATE.Means a proof or trial, by chemical experiments, of the parity of metal, esp., gold and silver. An examination of weights and measures, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 111....
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