a measure of the amount of energy that is unavailable for doing work in a thermodynamic system
the degree to which the particles of a thermodynamic system are randomly arranged, which gives a measure of the amount of disorder in the system
a measure of the amount of information in a message that is based on the logarithm of the number of possible equivalent messages
absence of form, pattern, or differentiation, or the process of decay that leads to this
entropic /enʹtropik/ adj
[German Entropie, from Greek en in + trepein to turn, change]