Definitions for entropy

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entropy en·tro·py

Spelling: [en-truh-pee]

IPA: /ˈɛn trə pi/

Entropy is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 196 anagrams from letters in entropy (enoprty).

Definitions for entropy

noun

1. Thermodynamics. (on a macroscopic scale) a function of thermodynamic variables, as temperature, pressure, or composition, that is a measure of the energy that is not available for work during a thermodynamic process. A closed system evolves toward a state of maximum entropy. (in statistical mechanics) a measure of the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system. Symbol: S.
2. (in data transmission and information theory) a measure of the loss of information in a transmitted signal or message.
3. (in cosmology) a hypothetical tendency for the universe to attain a state of maximum homogeneity in which all matter is at a uniform temperature (heat death)
4. a doctrine of inevitable social decline and degeneration.

Origin of entropy

German Entropie (1865); see en-², -tropy

Examples for entropy

When divided by that temperature the quotient gives the increase of entropy.

Fully illustrated and containing eighteen tables, including an entropy chart.

The reader is therefore warned that the proper way to say it is, "the entropy of the universe tends to a maximum."

entropy, en′trop-i, n. a term in physics signifying 'the available energy.'

All organic life and movement must cease when this maximum of entropy has been reached.

Anyone who prophesies doom has a hundred per cent chance of ultimately being right, if only because of entropy.

The entropy shift must be just right or we'll find ourselves with Hitle and his gang.

The summation is defined as the increase in entropy between the initial and the final states.

It is an entropy of history itself, slowly decaying into chaotic repetition.

Until Tuesday, Occupy Wall Street seemed, at least from the outside, to be entering a stage of entropy.