Entropy

Noun

A measure of the disorder or randomness in a system; in thermodynamics, it represents the amount of energy in a physical system that is not available to do work.

Pronunciation

En-tro-py

Synonyms

Disorder, Chaos, Uncertainty, Randomness

Antonyms

Order, Organization, Structure, Arrangement

Indian Languages

🇮🇳 Hindi → एंट्रॉपी (entropī)

🇮🇳 Bengali → এন্ট্রোপি (enṭrōpi)

🇮🇳 Tamil → எண்ட்ரோபி (eṇṭrōpi)

🇮🇳 Kannada → ಎಂಟ್ರೋಪಿ (eṇṭrōpi)

🇮🇳 Telugu → ఎంట్రోపీ (eṇṭrōpī)

🇮🇳 Urdu → انترپی (antarpi)

European Languages

🇪🇸 Spanish → Entropía

🇫🇷 French → Entropie

🇩🇪 German → Entropie

Other Asian Languages

🇨🇳 Chinese → 熵 (shāng)

🇯🇵 Japanese → エントロピー (entoropī)

Examples
  1. The concept of entropy is crucial in understanding the second law of thermodynamics.
  2. As a system becomes more disordered, its entropy increases.
  3. In information theory, entropy quantifies the uncertainty involved in predicting the value of a random variable.