adverb
- in a manner relating to or governed by entropy; according to the principles of entropy or thermodynamic disorder
Usage: technical; physics/chemistry
Examples
- The system evolves entropically toward greater disorder over time.
- Entropically speaking, isolated systems tend to increase in randomness.
- The process occurs entropically, following the second law of thermodynamics.
- Energy disperses entropically throughout the closed system.