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CONSERVATION OF PARITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conservation of parity mean? 

CONSERVATION OF PARITY (noun)
  The noun CONSERVATION OF PARITY has 1 sense:

1. (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 systemplay

  Familiarity information: CONSERVATION OF PARITY used as a noun is very rare.


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CONSERVATION OF PARITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

conservation of parity; mirror symmetry; parity; space-reflection symmetry

Hypernyms ("conservation of parity" is a kind of...):

conservation ((physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)


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