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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The eventual dispersion of all of the energy within a physical system to a completely uniform distribution of heat energy, that is, to maximum entropy. The Second Law of Thermodynamics predicts heat death for all macroscopic physical systems.
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- noun physics The state of a
thermodynamic system having reached amaximum entropy ;temperature isuniform throughout, and noenergy is available to dowork
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