entropy (disambiguation)

Entropy (Greek: en = in and tropos = way/means) can have one of several meanings:

Thermodynamic entropy in the context of chemistry, physics, and thermodynamics, is a measure of the amount of energy in a physical system which cannot be used to do mechanical work.
Entropy in the context of probability theory, statistics, and information theory, measures the amount of information that is contained in a random variable or other unknown quantity.
In the theory of metric spaces in mathematics, entropy numbers are used to measure the dimension of sets (and in particular fractals).
Entropy (board game) refers to two board games known under the name Entropy, invented by Eric Solomon (1977) or Augustine Carreno (1994).
"Entropy" is a song on The 'b' Album by Moxy Früvous
Entropy (anonymous data store) is a decentralized, peer-to-peer communication network designed to be resistant to censorship.
Entropy is a measure of biodiversity in the study of biological ecology.
Entropy (linguistics).
Entropy is the name of a non-profit student organization for the advancement of electronic music at the Helsinki University of Technology
Entropy is the name of a Renderman-Interface compliant 3D Renderer that was developed by Berkely software company Exluna until further development was halted as part of the settlement of a patent lawsuit filed by Pixar. Exluna were subsequently aquired by Nvidia Corporation to develop a hardware-accelerated renderer that is able to use Nvidia GPU's to accelerate the rendering process.

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