| 词汇 | entropy |
| 词源 | entropy. This term in thermodynamics is generally used to- day to express the doctrine of inevitable social decline and de- generation. It is said to have been coined about 1865 by the German scientist Rudolf Clausius from the Greek prefix en, in, into, within; and the Greek trope, transformation. |
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