extropy

noun

Etymology

First coined to serve as an antonym of entropy, substituting its en- element (representing the prepositional prefix ἐν (en), en, “in” in its Ancient Greek etymon ἐντροπία (entropía), entropia, “a turning towards”) with ex- (representing the Ancient Greek ἐξ (ex), ex, “out of”, “from”); because ἐξ (ex) takes the form ἐκ (ek) when prefixed to an element beginning with τ (t), the analogical spelling is ectropy (or, alternatively, ektropy), as if after the Ancient Greek *ἐκτροπία (ektropía, “a turning out of”).

  1. derived from *ἐκτροπία — “a turning out of
  2. derived from ἐξ

Definitions

  1. Negentropy.

    • Extropy uptake, extropy output and entropy production. [...] Jin is the incoming extropy flow, while Jout is the outgoing one. Extropy inflow / outflow is the extropy of the incoming / outgoing material[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for extropy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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