n.
1.(obstetrics) the number of live-born children a woman has delivered
2.(mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity
3.(computer science) abit 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
4.(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
5.functional equality
