entropie

Signification (Anglais)

entropy

Synonymes

hasard

information

renseignement

Traductions

entropy

entropia

entropía

Entropie

entropia

εντροπία

entropie

entropia

entropi

selective information

entropía

randomness

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information

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɑ̃.tʁɔ.pi/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Emprunté à allemand: Entropie

In summary

Probably borrowed from German Entropie, from Ancient Greek ἐντροπῐ́ᾱ (entropĭ́ā); literally "turning over" but taken in the sense of "transforming". A term proposed in 1850 by the German physicist R. J. Clausius by analogy with German Energie.