Meaning of ENTROPY
| Pronunciation: | | 'entrupee
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- [n] (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information"
- [n] (thermodynamics) a measure of the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing work; entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity
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| | Synonyms: | | information, selective information |
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| | Antonyms: | | ectropy | | |
| | See Also: | | conformational entropy, information measure, physical phenomenon | |
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| | Definition: | | Entropy
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \En"tro*py\, n. [Gr. ? a turning in; ? in + ? a turn,
fr. ? to turn.] (Thermodynamics)
A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable
quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat
the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves
the body the quantity increases or diminishes. If a small
amount, h, of heat enters the body when its temperature is t
in the thermodynamic scale the entropy of the body is
increased by h ? t. The entropy is regarded as measured from
some standard temperature and pressure. Sometimes called the
thermodynamic function.
The entropy of the universe tends towards a maximum.
--Clausius.
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| | Definition: | | A measure of the disorder of a system. Systems tend to go from a state of order (low entropy) to a state of maximum disorder (high entropy). The entropy of a system is related to the amount of information it contains. A highly ordered system can be described using fewer bits of information than a disordered one. For example, a string containing one million "0"s can be described using run-length encoding as [("0", 1000000)] whereas a string of random symbols (e.g. bits, or characters) will be much harder, if not impossible, to compress in this way. Shannon's formula gives the entropy H(M) of a message M in bits: H(M) = -log2 p(M) Where p(M) is the probability of message M. |
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| | Definition: | | The amount of disorder in a system. |
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