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10 Language-to-English DictionariesEntropie
Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ɛntʁoˈpiː/
"Entropie ist ein Maß für die Unordnung in einem System."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system's thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work, often interpreted as the degree of disorder or randomness in the system.
"The second law of thermodynamics states that the total entropy of an isolated system can never decrease over time." - 2
Lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.
"As time went on, the old filing system fell into complete entropy."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Coined in 1865 by German physicist Rudolf Clausius from the Greek word tropē, meaning 'turning' or 'transformation', combined with the prefix en- meaning 'in'. It was originally created in thermodynamics to quantify the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system, later expanding into information theory and general vernacular to describe degradation and chaos.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Entropy" is said worldwide
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entropie
Transliteration: /ɑ̃.tʁɔ.pi/
"L'entropie de l'univers tend à augmenter constamment."
Entropie
Transliteration: /ɛntʁoˈpiː/
"Entropie ist ein Maß für die Unordnung in einem System."
entropia
Transliteration: /en.troˈpi.a/
"Il concetto di entropia è fondamentale nella termodinamica."
entropía
Transliteration: /en.tɾoˈpi.a/
"El universo avanza inexorablemente hacia un estado de mayor entropía."
entropia
Transliteration: /ẽ.tɾoˈpi.a/
"A entropia mede o grau de desordem de um sistema."
एन्ट्रॉपी
Transliteration: entropī
"ब्रह्मांड की एन्ट्रॉपी लगातार बढ़ रही है।"
熵
Transliteration: shāng
"孤立系统的熵总是增加的。"
엔트로피
Transliteration: enteuropi
"우주의 엔트로피는 항상 증가하는 방향으로 진행됩니다."
エントロピー
Transliteration: entoropī
"孤立系のエントロピーは時間とともに増大する。"
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