total entropy

collocation in English

meaningsoftotalandentropy

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total
adjective
uk
/ˈtəʊ.təl/us
/ˈtoʊ.t̬əl/
including ...
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entropy
noun[U]
uk
/ˈen.trə.pi/us
/ˈen.trə.pi/
social science
the amount of order or lack of order in ...
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(Definition oftotalandentropyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thetotalentropyand route entropy agree well with the values obtained from lattice simulations.
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So the barrier initially decreases because thetotalentropyof the bottleneck increases (drawn schematically on the right).
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Thetotalentropyis defined for an anisotropic plasma as the sum of entropies corresponding to the parallel and perpendicular degrees of freedom.
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For a reversible process, entropy behaves as a conserved quantity and no change occurs intotalentropy.
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The range of smoothing is provided by some fixed percentage of conditional entropy fromtotalentropy.
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If there are mass flows across the system boundaries, they will also influence thetotalentropyof the system.
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More specifically,totalentropyis conserved in a reversible process and not conserved in an irreversible process.
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A paradigm there would be a sort of prohibition to proceed with any action that would increase thetotalentropyof the system.
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Since the demon and the gas are interacting, we must consider thetotalentropyof the gas and the demon combined.
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Many analyses have been made of this; all show that when the entropy of room and demon are taken together, thistotalentropydoes increase.
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The information gain is equal to thetotalentropyfor an attribute if for each of the attribute values a unique classification can be made for the result attribute.
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The mutual information is equal to thetotalentropyfor an attribute if for each of the attribute values a unique classification can be made for the result attribute.
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Gibbs free energy is simply the total enthalpy of the gas minus itstotalentropytimes temperature.
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