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1883 Nature 26 July 296/2 Its transformation to ‘titanic’ density occupies no visible space at all, and is graphically a material point, although entropically it is infinitely composite.

1910 Chem. News 6 May 205/2 For experimental convenience oxygen will still be found the more convenient unit, since entropically it is more on a footing with the other elements than hydrogen.

1955 Amer. Scientist Oct. 566 The attempt to characterize phenomenological time entropically..can succeed only if we regard the entropy law as an assertion about at least two closed systems.

2001 D. T. Haynie Biol. Thermodynamics iii. 59 When an entropically unfavorable process is made to occur, the overall change in the entropy of the universe must be greater than zero.

1966 Wisconsin Stud. Contemp. Lit. 7 114 The breakdown of communication, which threatens entropically to annihilate all by turning all into random, dislocated movement in which society can sustain no principle of truth or order..appears in Journey to the End of the Night as the spread of falsehood.

1983 Observer 22 May 31/1 Jack Kerouac..for a few unconsecutive months in the mid-1950s consented to be billeted, fed and adored by her, before drifting back entropically to the road.

2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 28 Jan. (Review section) 27 The unnamed narrator of Will Wiles's ingenious first novel, holed up in an anonymous Eastern-European city and four days into a week of entropically bad luck.