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An important extensive property of all systems in thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory, quantifying their disorder (randomness), i.e., our lack of information about them. It characterizes the degree to which the energy of the system is *not* available to do useful work.

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What is "order" and "disorder" in entropy?

Entropy is dependent on the number of microstates. … If entropy is a measure of disorder, then 'order' is also related to the number of microstates--the number of different ways a system can be in a given state. …
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