entropy

Etymology
First attested in 1867, as the translation of, coined in 1865 by Rudolph Clausius in analogy to , replacing the root of 🇨🇬 by ).

Noun

 * 1) A measure of the disorder present in a system.
 * 2)  A measure of the disorder directly proportional to the natural logarithm of the number of microstates yielding an equivalent thermodynamic macrostate.
 * 3)  Shannon entropy
 * 4)  A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work.
 * 5) The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature.
 * 6) The dispersal of energy; how much energy is spread out in a process, or how widely spread out it becomes, at a specific temperature.
 * 7)  A measure of the amount of information and noise present in a signal.
 * 8)  The tendency of a system that is left to itself to descend into chaos.

Translations

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 * Bengali: এনট্রপি
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 * Czech: entropie
 * Danish: entropi
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 * Esperanto: entropio
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 * Icelandic: óreiða
 * Irish: eantrópacht
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 * Khmer: អង់ត្រូពី
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 * Latin: entropia
 * Maori: pūngao ngoikore, kaumingomingo
 * Occitan: entropia
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 * Tagalog: malikusog
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 * Thai: เอนโทรปี
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 * Ukrainian: ентропі́я
 * Welsh: entropi


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 * Chinese:
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 * Danish: entropi
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 * Latin: entropia
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 * Thai: เอนโทรปี
 * Ukrainian: ентропі́я


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