Noun: entropy
| Singular | entropy |
| Plural | entropies |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: unavailable energy
Nouns inflected like entropy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
First attested in 1867, as the translation of German Entropie, coined in 1865 by Rudolph Clausius in analogy to Energie (“energy”), replacing the root of Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”) by Ancient Greek τροπή (tropḗ, “transformation”)). See: German Nouns '
Entropie', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἔργον', Ancient Greek Nouns '
τροπή'.
Verbs referencing "entropy"
Polish Nouns
entropia, Greek Nouns
ντροπή.