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entropy

noun
/ˈɛntɹəpi/

Etymology

First attested in 1867, as the translation of German Entropie, coined in 1865 by Rudolph Clausius in analogy to Energie (“energy”), replacing the root of Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”) by Ancient Greek τροπή (tropḗ, “transformation”)).

  1. derived from τροπή
  2. derived from Entropie

Definitions

  1. A measure of the disorder present in a system.

  2. A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work.

    • Near-synonym: unavailable energy

  3. The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. The dispersal of energy

      The dispersal of energy; how much energy is spread out in a process, or how widely spread out it becomes, at a specific temperature.

    2. A measure of the amount of information and noise present in a signal.

    3. The tendency of a system that is left to itself to descend into chaos.

The neighborhood

Derived

algorithmic entropy, anentropy, conditional entropy, correntropy, disentropy, entropic, entropized, entropology, entropyless, entropylike, extropy, high-entropy alloy, hyperentropy, information entropy, joint entropy, min-entropy, negentropy, Rényi entropy, Shannon entropy, subentropy, Tsallis entropy, von Neumann entropy

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