entropy
IPA: ˈɛntrʌpi
noun
- 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.
- (information theory) Shannon entropy
- (thermodynamics, countable) A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work.
- The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature.
- The dispersal of energy; how much energy is spread out in a process, or how widely spread out it becomes, at a specific temperature.
- (statistics, information theory, countable) A measure of the amount of information and noise present in a signal.
- (uncountable) The tendency of a system that is left to itself to descend into chaos.
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Examples of "entropy" in Sentences
- The accompanying entropy is given by the relation.
- The entropy is maximum and the temperature is infinite.
- The mixing entropy is quantifiable, and it's different.
- The entropy of the hot thermal reservoir has decreased.
- Entropy is defined in the context of a probabilistic model.
- Entropy is a measure of the uniformity of the distribution of energy.
- In this limit the entropy becomes where is the ground state degeneracy.
- This is a revolution in the teaching of entropy to beginners in chemistry.
- A curious corollary concerns the fate of the universe as entropy increases.
- The effect of the entropy release is to make this entanglement irreversible.
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