conservation of parity

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   (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

   Synonymsparityspace-reflection symmetrymirror symmetry

   Broaderconservation

   physics

Questions about conservation of parity

What does conservation of parity mean?

conservation of parity means "(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".

What is another word for conservation of parity?

Close synonyms include parity, space-reflection symmetry, mirror symmetry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is conservation of parity a common word?

conservation of parity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.