entropy
Signification (Anglais)
- A measure of the disorder present in a system.
- A measure of the disorder present in a system.
- A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work.
- 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.
Concepts
Synonymes
selective information
mean amount of information
average information
average information content
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ˈɛntɹəpi/
Étymologie (Anglais)
In summary
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”)).
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