Meaning

A measure of the disorder present in a system..

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1. A measure of the disorder present in a system.
2. (thermodynamics, countable) A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work.
3. The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature.
4. The dispersal of energy; how much energy is spread out in a process, or how widely spread out it becomes, at a specific temperature.
5. (statistics, information theory, countable) A measure of the amount of information and noise present in a signal.
6. (uncountable) The tendency of a system that is left to itself to descend into chaos.

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Near-synonym: unavailable energy

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• entropies

Synonyms for entropy

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Use entropy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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