entropy
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noun- 1.
A measure of the disorder present in a system.
- 2.
(countable)(thermodynamics, countable) A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work.
Near-synonym: unavailable energy
Đồng nghĩa: unavailable energy
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature.
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)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.
(countable)(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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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 ἔργον work by Ancient Greek τροπή (transformation)).