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Noun
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1. 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 ¹).
## The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature ².
## The dispersal of energy; how much energy is spread out in a process, or how widely spread out it becomes, at a specific temperature. ³

1. context|statistics|information theory|countable A measure of the amount of information and noise present in a signal.
2. uncountable The tendency of a system that is left to itself to descend into chaos.

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German: Entropie f
Finnish: entropia
French: entropie f
Interlingua: entropia
Italian: entropia f
Japanese: ������ (entoropii)
Latin: entropia f
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Russian: Эн��опи� f
Spanish: entropía f
Ukrainian: �н��оп�� f
Portuguese: entropia f

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