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Entropy (physics)
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Physics
A measure of a system's degree of randomness or disorder; a measure of the capacity of a system to undergo spontaneous change; the transition from a more complex and unstable to a less complex and more stable state.
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Physics
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Text by
M. Alan Kazlev
Initially published on 24 October 2001.
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