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• Temperature is an observable but entropy is derived.From the entry observable
• Simplexity, according to Goldsmith, is defined as "synonymous with disorder, or structural simplicity or high entropy.1998, R. F. T. Stepto, Rosemarie Szostak, Molecular Sieves: Principles of their formation, structure and properties. From the entry simplexity
• As nothing breaks up into the world of things, the movement toward entropy becomes irreversible.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 9. From the entry cosmic
• She did gather that there were two distinct kinds of this entropy.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry Maxwell's demon
• I mean, the entropy sweeper thinks you're its best friend.2020 May 5, Carlos Hernandez, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe, Disney Electronic Content, →ISBN. From the entry AI whisperer
• We address here the rototranslational entropy loss upon binding.2015 July 16, “Distance-Based Configurational Entropy of Proteins from Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry rototranslational
• Science has the happy distinction of finding a balance between entropy and anentropy: between the need to conserve order with progress.2014, Colin Hannaford, Educating Messiahs, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry anentropy
• Since entropy measures the amount of disorder, negentropy measures order.2013, John E. Mayfield, “The Evolution of Complexity”, in The Engine of Complexity: Evolution as Computation, New York, N.Y.: Columbia…. From the entry negentropy
• In the right-hand side of the formula, the enthalpic and the ergonic contribution to the standard entropy of adsorption are recognized.2013, Aline Auroux, Calorimetry and Thermal Methods in Catalysis, page 35. From the entry ergonic
• It gives a measure of complexity of composition and of minor components in the entropy and anentropy values.2004, F. Wall, A. N. Zaitsev, Phoscorites and Carbonatites from Mantle to Mine, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry anentropy
• The sequence is unlikely to be randomly reproduced and would be an ideal pass phrase because it contains sufficient entropy to be safe from hacking.2018 August 2, Meteorite Debris, “EAP: Chimps in zoo go mad after eating an apple”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), archived from the original on…. From the entry octotrigintillion
• The corresponding leading order entropy of the nonsuperradiant modes is found to be proportional to the area of the horizon and is logarithmically divergent.2016, Kaushik Ghosh, “Near-Horizon Geometry and the Entropy of a Minimally Coupled Scalar Field in the Kerr Black Hole”, in arXiv. From the entry nonsuperradiant
• In their unified field physics, these processes are radiation and gravity or entropy and centropy; their biological version is anabolism and catabolism.2016 January 22, Alfonso Montuori, Journeys in Complexity: Autobiographical Accounts by Leading Systems and Complexity Thinkers…. From the entry centropy
• A regular Hilberg process is a stationary process that satisfies both a power-law growth of topological entropy and a hyperlogarithmic growth of maximal repetition.2015, Łukasz Dębowski, “Regular Hilberg Processes: An Example of Processes with a Vanishing Entropy Rate”, in arXiv. From the entry hyperlogarithmic
• These correlation functionals all share desirable additivity and monotonicity properties, but nonfreeness has additional attractive properties related to entropy maximization and statistical mechanics..2015, Alex D. Gottlieb, Norbert J. Mauser, “Nonfreeness and related correlation functionals for many-fermion states”, in arXiv. From the entry nonfreeness
• Thus, in principle, it is possible to estimate the entropy of a sequence by finding its length after being compressed by an optimal algorithm.2011 May 13, Marcelo A. Montemurro, Damián H. Zanette, “Universal Entropy of Word Ordering Across Linguistic Families”, in PLoS ONE…. From the entry compression
• Like entropy, fuggheadedness tends to increase.1980, Lester del Rey, The World of Science Fiction: 1926-1976, page 321. From the entry fuggheadedness
• Negentropy is the difference between the entropy of a system and the entropy of the same system at equilibrium (i.e., when it has its maximum possible entropy).2013, John E. Mayfield, “The Evolution of Complexity”, in The Engine of Complexity: Evolution as Computation, New York, N.Y.: Columbia…. From the entry negentropy
• Even in the case of modest forecognitions, we are dealing with negative entropies many orders of magnitude higher than in the case of the reflex actions of neuronal loops.2013, Werner Loewenstein, Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain, page 134. From the entry forecognition
• Given the connection between increasing entropy and the arrow of time, does the Big Crunch mean that time would run backwards as soon as collapse began?1992, Roger Highfield, Peter Coveney, Arrow of Time, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 179. From the entry time
• Hypothesis 6.14: Entropy levels within the social group may vary but must be maintained below maximum entropy on certain relevant variables (e.g., on the six globals and five mutables).1990, Kenneth D. Bailey, Social Entropy Theory, page 281. From the entry mutable
• The physical schema is one in which centropy cradles entropy in the much broader aspect of defining and relating matter and energy as parameters of a single ecosystem.1975, Stanley Krippner, Daniel Rubin, The Energies of Consciousness: Explorations in Acupuncture, Auras, and Kirlian Photography, Routledge. From the entry centropy

Meaning of entropy

1. noun A measure of the disorder directly proportional to the natural logarithm of the number of microstates yielding an equivalent thermodynamic macrostate.
2. noun Shannon entropy.
3. noun A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work.

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How do you use entropy in a sentence?

Entropy is used as a noun. For example: “Temperature is an observable but entropy is derived.”

What is a short sentence with entropy?

“Like entropy, fuggheadedness tends to increase.”

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.