Entropy (disambiguation)
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Entropy can have one of several meanings:
- Thermodynamic entropy in the context of chemistry, physics, and thermodynamics, is a measure of the amount of energy in a physical system which cannot be used to do mechanical work.
- Entropy in the context of probability theory, statistics, and information theory, measures the amount of information that is contained in a random variable or other unknown quantity.
- In the theory of metric spaces in mathematics, entropy numbers are used to measure the dimension of sets (and in particular fractals).
- Entropy (board game) refers to two board games known under the name Entropy, invented by Eric Solomon (1977) or Augustine Carreno (1994).
- "Entropy" is a song on The 'b' Album by Moxy Früvous
- Entropy (anonymous data store) is a decentralized, peer-to-peer communication network designed to be resistant to censorship.
- Entropy is a measure of biodiversity in the study of biological ecology.
- Entropy (linguistics).
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