An extra bit used in checking for errors in groups of data bits transferred within or between computer systems. With PCs, the term is frequently encountered in modem-to-modem communications, in which a parity bit is often used to check the accuracy with which each character is transmitted, and in RAM, where a parity bit is often used to check the accuracy with which each byte is stored.
(Computer science) An error detection procedure in which a bit (0 or 1) 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.
Bit koji je dodat radi provere parnosti u bajtovima. Na primer, ako je vretnost bita za parnost 1, to znači da je parnost neparna (grupa od osam bitova koje posmatramo sadrži neparan broj bitova čija je vrednost 1); nula, ako je parna.