How to Use entropy in a Sentence

entropy

noun

• The events of 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the first kind of era and the onset of a new age of entropy and chaos.
  — David Kaiser, Time, 7 Nov. 2019
• And it’s based off of the level lamp entropy from Cloudflare.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2021
• That flaw is entropy, which builds up as a universe bounces.
  — James Riordon, Scientific American, 24 May 2023
• The higher the entropy of a word, the higher the information gain.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023
• The degree to which a system has no pattern is known as entropy.
  — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 20 Aug. 2019
• The idea was to calculate the entropy in a different way.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Aug. 2021
• What’s the best way to understand entropy in this black hole context?
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Aug. 2021
• Coffee gets cold for a reason, and that reason is called entropy.
  — Justin Peters, Slate Magazine, 20 Dec. 2017
• In this case, the entropy is proportional to the three-dimensional volume of the box, not the area.
  — Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
• The best-case scenario for a pro gamer still involves a lot of entropy, so for now, Bang intends to keep his options open.
  — Luke Winkie, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2019
• Contrast this with the entropy of a more traditional system—say, a gas in a box.
  — Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
• Alice thinks that Bob does not support 16 bytes of entropy and accepts 1 byte.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2019
• Maxwell had created a system that appeared to defy the rise of entropy, and thus the laws of the universe.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
• The most likely arrangement of atoms has the highest entropy.
  — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2022
• This may sound wonderful to you, but being the sole source of entropy in a closed system gets haunting at 2 a.m.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2022
• This hints at the importance of entropy, which in rough terms is a measure of disorder.
  — Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• But if high-entropy systems could be sucked into nothingness by black holes, that would not be the case.
  — The Economist, 14 Mar. 2018
• The stone is also inscribed with one of Hawking's equations describing the entropy of a black hole.
  — NBC News, 15 June 2018
• The place had the slightest touch of Grey Gardens to it, though without the unapologetic embrace of entropy.
  — James McAuley, Town & Country, 13 Aug. 2018
• So black holes must also have entropy, and Hawking was the first to calculate that entropy.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Dec. 2022
• But most of that is wasted by the warm parts radiating their heat to the cold parts, creating entropy.
  — Emy Rodriguez Flores, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2023
• Or do the people of Waco just deal with it, accept it as the inevitable flow of all things, not so much entropy as evolution?
  — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 10 July 2017
• And that’s the puzzle about thermodynamics and entropy and so on.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 May 2017
• On his memorial stone is inscribed his equation, which describes the entropy of a black hole.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2018
• The entropy of the universe means that it gets increasingly disordered over long spans of time.
  — WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022
• Some meetings go off without a hitch, but that doesn't mean that entropy won't ensue later.
  — Ross Levin, Star Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
• Our own bad habits and the natural entropy of most systems has caused misery and burnout, and attendant self-help books.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
• But there’s also the problem of social life (how to share space with other people) and the problem of entropy (things fall apart; sculpture tries not to).
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
• But the entropy of the actual universe remained an open question.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
• The key is to measure this entanglement entropy in the presence of multiple copies of the system.
  — Ahmed Almheiri, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024