en·tro·py
n, pl -pies : a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usu. considered to be a measure of the system's disorder and that is a property of the system's state and is related to it in such a manner that a reversible change in heat in the system produces a change in the measure which varies directly with the heat change and inversely with the absolute temperature at which the change takes place : broadly : the degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system en*tro*pic adj en*tro*pi*cal*ly adv
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