1. plural of entropy; measures of disorder or randomness in a system
Usage: physics; thermodynamics
2. plural of entropy; measures of uncertainty or information content in data
Usage: information theory; technical
3. plural of entropy; states of decline or deterioration
Usage: figurative

Examples

• The physicist calculated the entropies of different gas mixtures.
• Higher temperatures generally lead to increased entropies in molecular systems.
• The computer scientist compared the entropies of various data compression algorithms.
• Information entropies help measure the randomness in digital signals.
• The entropies of social systems can increase during periods of instability.
• Researchers studied how entropies change as materials undergo phase transitions.
• The entropies of the two samples differed significantly under identical conditions.