"entropy" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɛntɹəpi/ Audio: en-us-entropy.ogg 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, {{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.
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  2. A measure of the disorder present in a system.
    (information theory) Shannon entropy
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Information theory, Physical quantities
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  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, Physical quantities 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)
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  4. The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Physical quantities
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  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
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  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)
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  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': 8 10 7 6 1 3 66
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: anergy, bound entropy, disgregation Related terms: chaos

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