entropy

physical property of the state of a system, measure of disorder
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entropy

Summary

entropy is a concept in physics[1]. entropy ranks in the top 4% of concept_in_physics entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,081 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • entropy's instance of is recorded as concept in physics[3].
  • entropy's GND ID is recorded as 4014894-4[4].
  • entropy's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85044150[5].
  • entropy's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12099111d[6].
  • entropy's subclass of is recorded as scalar quantity[7].
  • entropy's subclass of is recorded as extensive quantity[8].
  • entropy's subclass of is recorded as state function[9].
  • entropy's subclass of is recorded as additive quantity[10].
  • entropy's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00562019[11].
  • entropy's Commons category is recorded as Entropy[12].
  • entropy's said to be the same as is recorded as entropy in order and disorder[13].
  • entropy's opposite of is recorded as negentropy[14].
  • entropy's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D019277[15].
  • entropy's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 19353[16].
  • entropy's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cj1wv[17].
  • entropy's MeSH tree code is recorded as G01.906.345[18].
  • entropy's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph119950[19].
  • entropy's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Entropy[20].
  • entropy's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX528989[21].
  • entropy's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300056015[22].
  • entropy's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 536.73[23].
  • entropy's PSH ID is recorded as 3262[24].
  • entropy's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0103334[25].
  • entropy's described by source is recorded as ISO 80000-5:2007 Quantities and units — Part 5: Thermodynamics[26].
  • entropy's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[27].

Why It Matters

entropy ranks in the top 4% of concept_in_physics entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,081 views/month).[2] entropy has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] entropy is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Q87327308. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Q87327308. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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