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Meanings of parity bit in English

Russian
бит чётности
Portuguese
bit de paridade
Spanish
bit de paridad
Catalan
bit de paritat

Bit added to a binary string to ensure that the sum of the bit values is even or odd; used as an error detecting code.

        бит чётности
        Usage of parity bit in English
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        One way to check for errors in transmission is to tag each byte with a bit that means "even or odd", the parity bit.
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