Glossary · term
Entropy
Thermodynamics
- Aliases
- entropies
- Domain
- Thermodynamics
Definition
A measure of how many microscopic arrangements a system could be in and still look the same from outside — equivalently, of energy that can no longer do work. It never decreases in a closed system, which is the second law.
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