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entropy

/ˈɛntɹəpi/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.28 in modern English

Syllables
en-tropy
IPA
/ˈɛntɹəpi/
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A measure of the disorder present in a system.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A measure of the disorder present in a system.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work.

Countable

noun

The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The dispersal of energy; how much energy is spread out in a process, or how widely spread out it becomes, at a specific temperature.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A measure of the amount of information and noise present in a signal.

Countable

noun

The tendency of a system that is left to itself to descend into chaos.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

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”)).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Entropie, τροπή

Usage

Inflected Forms

entropies (plural)

Derived Forms

anentropy correntropy disentropy entropic entropized entropology entropyless entropylike extropy hyperentropy negentropy subentropy

Phrases

algorithmic entropy conditional entropy high-entropy alloy information entropy joint entropy min-entropy Rényi entropy Shannon entropy

Frequently Paired Words

chaos mul:S

Synonyms

unavailable energy anergy bound entropy disgregation randomness s information selective information

Antonyms

aggregation exergy free entropy negentropy syntropy

Questions

How do you pronounce entropy?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɛntɹəpi/.
What does entropy mean?
A measure of the disorder present in a system.
Where does entropy come from?
It is traced to German.

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