Meaning & use
entropy
A measure of disorder or randomness in a system, which tends to increase over time.
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Physicists explain that entropy in an isolated system never decreases over time.
The messy garage seemed to be a case study in entropy after months of neglect.
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Entropy is a precise concept in physics and thermodynamics but is also used loosely to describe increasing disorder in everyday life.
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