Word
entropic
Phoneticsen·trop·ic
Definition
adj. relating to disorder, randomness, or the amount of uncertainty in a set of information.
adj. relating to entropy, characterized by thermodynamic disorder, degradation of usable energy, or probabilistic uncertainty in information theory.
Examples
“An untidy bedroom is a familiar picture of an entropic tendency toward disorder.”
“The language model showed high entropic uncertainty when predicting the next word in an unfamiliar riddle.”
“Reinforcement learning agents frequently use maximum entropic regularization to encourage exploratory trajectories in sparse reward environments.”
Examples
simple
“An untidy bedroom is a familiar picture of an entropic tendency toward disorder.”
contextual
“The language model showed high entropic uncertainty when predicting the next word in an unfamiliar riddle.”
complex
“Reinforcement learning agents frequently use maximum entropic regularization to encourage exploratory trajectories in sparse reward environments.”
Etymology
Derived from entropy, coined in 1865 by German physicist Rudolf Clausius from Greek entropia ('a turning towards, transformation'), from en- ('in') + trope ('turn, transformation').
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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