Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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parity

/ˈpæɹɪti/ noun

Forms parities

  1. noun (uncountable) Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
  2. noun (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.
  3. noun (mathematics, countable) The classification of an element of a set with parity into one of the two sets.
  4. noun (computing) The count of one-valued bits in a value, reduced to even or odd or zero or one.
  5. noun (physics, countable) Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
  6. noun (games, countable) In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
  7. noun Resemblance; analogy.
  8. noun (medicine) The number of delivered pregnancies reaching viable gestational age, usually between 20-28 weeks.
  9. noun (agriculture) The number of times a sow has farrowed.

Synonyms

para parity bit check bit conservation of parity space-reflection symmetry mirror symmetry

Antonyms

chirality

Etymology

From Middle French parité, from Late Latin paritās, from Latin pār (“equal”). Equivalent to pari- + -ty.

From Latin paritas, from pariō (“give birth”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality or condition of being equal or equivalent; A like state or degree; equality; close correspondence; analogy; as, parity of reasoning. "No parity of principle." De Quincey.

Etymology [L. paritas, fr. par, paris, equal: cf. F. parité. See Pair, Peer an equal.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “parity”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “parity” (best matches first).