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Definition of entropy plural ==entropies==

  1. 1:  a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system's disorder, that is a property of the system's state, and that varies directly with any reversible change in heat in the system and inversely with the temperature of the system; broadly :  the degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system

  2. 2a :  the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformityb :  a process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder

  3. 3:  chaosdisorganizationrandomness

entropic[]

play \en-ˈtrō-pik, -ˈträ-pik\ adjective

entropically[]

play \-pi-k(ə-)lē\ adverb

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