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  • adverb By means of or in relation to entropy

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entropic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • I say Chip old chap, your theory is just too entropically delicious to swallow.

    Roland Burris's monument... Ann Althouse 2009

  • In his view, human society is always changing; civilization is entropically prone to decline.

    The Year of two Popes 2006

  • In his view, human society is always changing; civilization is entropically prone to decline.

    The Year of two Popes 2006

  • Thus the unnamed narrator of Will Wiles's ingenious first novel, holed up in an anonymous Eastern-European city and four days into a week of entropically bad luck.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Brian Dillon 2012

  • Moreover, we must grant that although our ability to affect the environment is entropically grand, it is not unbounded, thus our optimism to uniquely steer the course of the natural history is incongruous with physics.

    Progressive Bloggers 2010

  • As philologists at least as early as Erasmus observed (and as information theory's version of the second law of thermodynamics would predict), scribal errors tend to replace less frequent and hence entropically more information-rich wordings with more frequent ones.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles John L. Cisne et al. 2010

  • They tend to "fold" and occupy a small volume because it is entropically favored: there are many more microstates where the molecule is "short".

    The Reference Frame 2010

  • As philologists at least as early as Erasmus observed (and as information theory's version of the second law of thermodynamics would predict), scribal errors tend to replace less frequent and hence entropically more information-rich wordings with more frequent ones.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles John L. Cisne et al. 2010

  • Can someone tell me how our nation can justify this expense in the face of an already entropically growing national debt?

    Boise Weekly Sarah Barber 2010

  • Assuming that the bits are entropically trying to average their energies out, then his model shows how gravity emerges as these bits average their energies out and approach an average energy.

    The Reference Frame 2010

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