communication theory, communications - the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); "communications is his major field of study"

information measure - a system of measurement of information based on the probabilities of the information-bearing events

physical property - a property used to characterize physical objects

conformational entropy - entropy calculated from the probability that a state could be reached by chance alone

thermodynamics - the branch of physics concerned with the conversion of different forms of energy