Entropy

noun/ˈɛntɹəpi/science

Definition

(In information theory) a logarithmic measure of the rate of transfer of information in a particular message or language.

Etymology

English Wikipedia has an article on:History of entropyWikipedia First attested in 1867, as the translation of German Entropie, coined in 1865 by Rudolph Clausius in analogy to Energie (“energy”), replacing the root of Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”) by Ancient Greek τροπή (tropḗ, “transformation”)).

Synonyms

anergy, bound entropy, disgregation

In a sentence

As the codebase aged, entropy increased and conventions dissolved.