"entropy" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɛntɹəpi/ Audio: en-us-entropy.ogg [US] Forms: entropies [plural]
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”)). Etymology templates: {{der|en|de|Entropie}} German Entropie, {{m|de|Energie||energy}} Energie (“energy”), {{cog|grc|ἔργον||work}} Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”), {{der|en|grc|τροπή||transformation}} Ancient Greek τροπή (tropḗ, “transformation”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} entropy (countable and uncountable, plural entropies)
  1. A measure of the disorder present in a system.
    (Boltzmann definition) A measure of the disorder directly proportional to the natural logarithm of the number of microstates yielding an equivalent thermodynamic macrostate.
    Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-entropy-en-noun-p0kD0inj
  2. A measure of the disorder present in a system.
    (information theory) Shannon entropy
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Information theory Translations (term in thermodynamics): entropia (Basque), এনট্রপি (enṭropi) (Bengali), entropia [feminine] (Catalan), (shāng) (Chinese Mandarin), entropie [feminine] (Czech), entropi [common-gender] (Danish), entropie (Dutch), entropio (Esperanto), entropia (Finnish), entropie [feminine] (French), Entropie [feminine] (German), εντροπία (entropía) [feminine] (Greek), óreiða (Icelandic), eantrópacht [feminine] (Irish), entropia [feminine] (Italian), エントロピー (entoropī) (Japanese), អង់ត្រូពី (ʼɑngtroupii) (Khmer), 엔트로피 (enteuropi) (Korean), entropia [feminine] (Latin), pūngao ngoikore (Maori), kaumingomingo (Maori), entropia [feminine] (Occitan), آنتروپی (Persian), entropia [feminine] (Polish), entropia [feminine] (Portuguese), entropie [feminine] (Romanian), энтропи́я (entropíja) [feminine] (Russian), entropía [feminine] (Spanish), malikusog (Tagalog), சிதறம் (citaṟam) (Tamil), เอนโทรปี (een-troo-bpii) (Thai), entropi (Turkish), ентропі́я (entropíja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), entropi [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-entropy-en-noun-h654EioP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, Physical quantities Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 39 20 14 6 6 1 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 17 43 15 16 4 4 1 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 41 21 11 4 6 1 Disambiguation of Physical quantities: 12 38 24 12 5 8 1 Topics: computing, engineering, information-theory, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'term in thermodynamics': 18 33 25 13 4 7 1
  3. (thermodynamics, countable) A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Thermodynamics
    Sense id: en-entropy-en-noun-BmG6zlCm Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics, thermodynamics
  4. The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-entropy-en-noun-jeCYITB4
  5. The dispersal of energy; how much energy is spread out in a process, or how widely spread out it becomes, at a specific temperature. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-entropy-en-noun-iEXy5G1A
  6. (statistics, information theory, countable) A measure of the amount of information and noise present in a signal. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Information theory, Statistics Translations (measure of the amount of information in a signal): (shāng) (Chinese Mandarin), entropio (Esperanto), entropia (Finnish), Entropie [feminine] (German), εντροπία (entropía) [feminine] (Greek), entropia [feminine] (Italian), エントロピー (entoropī) (Japanese), entropia [feminine] (Polish), entropia [feminine] (Portuguese), entropie [feminine] (Romanian), энтропи́я (entropíja) [feminine] (Russian), entropía [feminine] (Spanish), เอนโทรปี (een-troo-bpii) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-entropy-en-noun-0lgbNtWX Topics: computing, engineering, information-theory, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, statistics Disambiguation of 'measure of the amount of information in a signal': 12 13 28 1 4 40 0
  7. (uncountable) The tendency of a system that is left to itself to descend into chaos. Tags: uncountable Translations (tendency of a system to descend into chaos): (shāng) (Chinese Mandarin), entropi [common-gender] (Danish), entropia (Finnish), Entropie [feminine] (German), εντροπία (entropía) [feminine] (Greek), entropia [feminine] (Italian), entropia [feminine] (Latin), entropia [feminine] (Polish), entropia [feminine] (Portuguese), entropie [feminine] (Romanian), энтропи́я (entropíja) [feminine] (Russian), entropía [feminine] (Spanish), เอนโทรปี (een-troo-bpii) (Thai), ентропі́я (entropíja) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-entropy-en-noun-1-kS6QaH Disambiguation of 'tendency of a system to descend into chaos': 11 13 6 5 1 2 61
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: anergy, bound entropy, disgregation Related terms: chaos

Inflected forms

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    },
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      "sense": "term in thermodynamics",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
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      "roman": "shāng",
      "sense": "measure of the amount of information in a signal",
      "word": "熵"
    },
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      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "measure of the amount of information in a signal",
      "word": "entropio"
    },
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      "sense": "measure of the amount of information in a signal",
      "word": "entropia"
    },
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "measure of the amount of information in a signal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Entropie"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "entropía",
      "sense": "measure of the amount of information in a signal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "εντροπία"
    },
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "measure of the amount of information in a signal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "entropia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "entoropī",
      "sense": "measure of the amount of information in a signal",
      "word": "エントロピー"
    },
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      "sense": "measure of the amount of information in a signal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "entropia"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "measure of the amount of information in a signal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "entropia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "measure of the amount of information in a signal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "entropie"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "entropíja",
      "sense": "measure of the amount of information in a signal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "энтропи́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "measure of the amount of information in a signal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "entropía"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "een-troo-bpii",
      "sense": "measure of the amount of information in a signal",
      "word": "เอนโทรปี"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shāng",
      "sense": "tendency of a system to descend into chaos",
      "word": "熵"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "tendency of a system to descend into chaos",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "entropi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "tendency of a system to descend into chaos",
      "word": "entropia"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "tendency of a system to descend into chaos",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Entropie"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "entropía",
      "sense": "tendency of a system to descend into chaos",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "εντροπία"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "tendency of a system to descend into chaos",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "entropia"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "tendency of a system to descend into chaos",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "entropia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "tendency of a system to descend into chaos",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "entropia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "tendency of a system to descend into chaos",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "entropia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "tendency of a system to descend into chaos",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "entropie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "entropíja",
      "sense": "tendency of a system to descend into chaos",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "энтропи́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "tendency of a system to descend into chaos",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "entropía"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "een-troo-bpii",
      "sense": "tendency of a system to descend into chaos",
      "word": "เอนโทรปี"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "entropíja",
      "sense": "tendency of a system to descend into chaos",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ентропі́я"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "History of entropy",
    "entropy"
  ],
  "word": "entropy"
}

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