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What does entropy mean?

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Noun
  1. (thermodynamics, countable)
    1. strictly thermodynamic entropy. A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work.
    2. A measure of the disorder present in a system.
    3. The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature.
    4. The dispersal of energy; how much energy is spread out in a process, or how widely spread out it becomes, at a specific temperature.
  2. (statistics, information theory, countable) A measure of the amount of information and noise present in a signal.
  3. (uncountable) The tendency of a system that is left to itself to descend into chaos.
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However, the transmutational process remained a mystery to them, as humans struggled to explain it within terms of entropy and enthalpy.
In a reversible process, the total change in entropy in the system and the total change in entropy in the surroundings is zero.
How is it that microphysics is time-reversible, yet macroscopic systems show increasing entropy?
This study also bears on the nature and importance of changes in the configurational entropy on binding.
He can sort the results geographically by office to catch patches of entropy quickly.
The reason I adopt this tack is because entropy of the universe is said to be directional.

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