Anentropy

Quick meaning: Anentropy is a noun meaning (physical chemistry, thermodynamics, countable and uncountable) A measure of the purity or chemical affinity in a thermodynamic system.

Meaning

(physical chemistry, thermodynamics, countable and uncountable) A measure of the purity or chemical affinity in a thermodynamic system.

More Meanings

1. (statistics, countable and uncountable) A measure of the simplicity or purity of a distribution.
2. (uncountable) An increase in order.

Example Sentences

Science has the happy distinction of finding a balance between entropy and anentropy: between the need to conserve order with progress.

It is anentropy in the midst of entropy. Therefore, regarding life as defined the concept of homeostasis is only applicable in a relative sense.

Treivus has pointed out that the anentropy, apart from a constant factor (the universal gas constant) is equal to the chemical affinity for one componenent in a themodynamic system.

All these assume a kind of anentropy, a rising of order out of disorder, implicitly embodying a kind of anthropic intent, which Plato articulated as the soul, identified as the primal mover, the initiator of action.

Word Forms

• anentropies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include entropy, enantiopurity, unpureness, inertness, chaoticity, unsaturation.

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