en·tro·py Pronunciation: \ˈen-trə-pē\
Function:
noun
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary 2en- + Greek tropē change, literally, turn, from trepein to turn
Date: 1875
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 a: the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity
b: a process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder
3: chaos,
disorganization,
randomness— en·tro·pic
\en-ˈtrō-pik, -ˈträ-pik\ adjective
— en·tro·pi·cal·ly
\-pi-k(ə-)lē\ adverb