entropy
/ˈɛntɹəpi/
entropy noun: a measure of the disorder directly proportional to the natural logarithm of the number of microstates yielding an equivalent thermodynamic macrostate.
Noun
entropy (countable and uncountable, plural entropies)
- A measure of the disorder directly proportional to the natural logarithm of the number of microstates yielding an equivalent thermodynamic macrostate.
- Shannon entropy
- A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work.
- Near-synonym: unavailable energy
- Synonyms:
- unavailable energy
- 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.
- A measure of the amount of information and noise present in a signal.
- The tendency of a system that is left to itself to descend into chaos.
entropy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
entropy in Hindi
- एन्ट्रापी, एन्ट्रॉपी, एन्ट्रोपी
entropy in Tamil
- term in thermodynamics
- சிதறம் citaṟam
entropy in Marathi
- एन्ट्रॉपी, एन्ट्रोपी, एन्ट्रापी
entropy in Urdu
- اینٹروپی, اینٹروپائی, اینٹراپی
More languagesFewer languages
- entropy in Bengali
- এনট্রপি enṭropi
- entropy in Telugu
- ఎంట్రోపీ, ఎంట్రోపి, ఎంట్రాపీ
- entropy in Malayalam
- ഉത്ക്രമം
- entropy in Kannada
- ಚದರುಗಸುವು, ಚದರುಕ
- entropy in Punjabi
- ਐਂਟਰੋਪੀ, ਐਨਟ੍ਰੌਪੀ, ਐਨਟਰੌਪੀ
- entropy in Gujarati
- એન્ટ્રોપી
- entropy in Odia
- ଏନ୍ଟ୍ରୋପି, ଏଣ୍ଟ୍ରୋପି, ଏନଟ୍ରପି
- entropy in Nepali
- एन्ट्रोपी, एन्ट्रापी, एन्ट्रपी
- entropy in Tagalog
- malikusog
- entropy in Persian
- آنتروپی
- entropy in Thai
- เอนโทรปี een-troo-bpii
Examples of entropy in a sentence
- Temperature is an observable but entropy is derived.
- Simplexity, according to Goldsmith, is defined as "synonymous with disorder, or structural simplicity or high entropy.
- As nothing breaks up into the world of things, the movement toward entropy becomes irreversible.
Synonyms of entropy
Antonyms
- aggregation
- exergy
- free entropy
- negentropy
- syntropy
Forms of entropy
| plural | entropies |
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Origin of entropy
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”)).
Words formed from entropy
- algorithmic entropy
- anentropy
- conditional entropy
- correntropy
- disentropy
- entropic
- entropized
- entropology
- entropyless
- entropylike
- extropy
- high-entropy alloy
- hyperentropy
- information entropy
- joint entropy
- min-entropy
- negentropy
- Rényi entropy
- Shannon entropy
- subentropy
- Tsallis entropy
- von Neumann entropy
Phrases with entropy
Questions about entropy
- What does entropy mean?
- Entropy means a measure of the disorder directly proportional to the natural logarithm of the number of microstates yielding an equivalent thermodynamic macrostate.
- What is entropy in Hindi?
- Entropy in Hindi is एन्ट्रापी, एन्ट्रॉपी, एन्ट्रोपी. See Entropy meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is entropy?
- Entropy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce entropy?
- Entropy is pronounced /ˈɛntɹəpi/.
- What is the plural of entropy?
- The plural of entropy is entropies.
Words near entropy in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: entropy (page history and authors); entropy (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); entropy (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); entropy (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); entropy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); entropy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); entropy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); entropy (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); entropy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); entropy (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); entropy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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