meaning of bit parity

1. parity bit communications> An extra bit added to a byte or word to reveal errors. See parity.
2.
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 1s or an even number of 1s; e. g. , if the parity is odd then any group of bits that arrives with an even number of 1s must contain an error


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