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Microstate (Thermodynamics)In thermodynamics, a microstate describes a specific detailed microscopic configuration of a system. In contrast, the macrostate of a system refers to its macroscopic bulk properties such as its temperature and pressure. Large numbers of distinct microstates can all have the same macroscopic appearance, and thus a macrostate can be regarded as a simplified description of a large set of possible microstates. The entropy of a macrostate can be defined in terms of the size of its set of microstates, and vice versa. See also External links
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