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parity check

(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) a check made of computer data to ensure that the total number of bits of value 1 (or 0) in each unit of information remains odd or even after transfer between a peripheral device and the memory or vice versa

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parity check - a system of checking for errors in computer functioning

odd-even check, redundancy check

confirmation, substantiation, verification, check - additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct; "fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory"

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