Home                    Word of the Week Links for Word Lovers Crossword Solver AllWords Forums    Help                       Bookstore             Advertise              Copyrights            Privacy                  AllWords Search Box Contact Us

English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'entropy' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions entropy noun (entrop, ies, -) (context, thermodynamics, countable) strictly thermodynamic entropy. A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system which cannot be used to do mechanical work. A measure of the disorder present in a system (now becoming obsolete in chemistry http://www.entropysite.com/). The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055. The dispersal of energy; how much energy is spread out in a process, or how widely spread out it becomes, at a specific temperature. http://www.entropysite.com/students_approach.html (context, statistics, information theory, countable) A measure of the amount of information and noise present in a signal. (uncountable) The tendency of a system that is left to itself to descend into chaos. Translations:  German: Entropie French: entropie Italian: entropia Spanish: entropí­a Ukrainian: Ð�нÑ�Ñ�опÑ�Ñ�        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Dictionary content provided from Wiktionary.org under the GNU Free Documentation License Allwords Copyright 1998-2008 Allsites LLC. All rights reserved.