Usage of "entropy" | TermGallery

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(Communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome.

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(Thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work.

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Physical property of the state of a system, measure of disorder.

Usage of entropy in English

All that agony of mortality-justto deal with the problem of entropy. 
 For Love Of Evil 

Yet the increase of entropy, in this thinking, is what defines time. 
 The Guardian 

The second law of thermodynamics, entropy, tells us that all things deteriorate. 
 Heaven 

Thus, motor learning can be conceptualised as a process of entropy reduction. 
 Pubmed 

We used maximum entropy modeling to estimate the potential distributions of Ae. 
 Pubmed 

That part of the universe with original entropy, without form and void. 
 For Love Of Evil 

Even the entropy of madness, given the proper data, could be divined. 
 While galileo preys 

I guess I now know what that spike of entropy change was. 
 The Jennifer Morgue 

Surprisingly, entropy seems to contribute significantly to both anomeric discrimination and binding. 
 Pubmed 

One entropy parameter alone exceeds the discrimination strength of multivariate standards-based trees. 
 Pubmed 

It is the epitome of entropy, the final enemy of all things. 
 The evolutionary void 

There was no system to what Harold was doing, only mindless entropy. 
 The sherlockian 

MCA was just there to slow the entropy without ruining the fun. 
 Wired 

We show that these structures are stable for reasonable areal entropy densities. 
 Pubmed 

It is an entropy of history itself, slowly decaying into chaotic repetition. 
 After the Rain : how the West lost the East 

Phaedra rallied her magic, but it unraveled beneath the tide of entropy. 
 The bone palace 

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Meanings of entropy in English