The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ENTROPY
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More clues leading to the result ENTROPY
- Physical amount of energy left over in New York
- Place for treatment, with poor lack of order
- Space close to patient with bad disorder
- Opening with work in disorder
- Contestant receives surgery for disorder
- Physical state of work included in note
- Part of hospital, inadequate and in a state of chaos
- Work in foyer is no improvement!
- Work during admission always keeps increasing
- Work interrupts participation, energy wasted
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What does ENTROPY mean?
ENTROPY noun- Strictly thermodynamic entropy. A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work.
- A measure of the disorder present in a system.
- The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature http//arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055.
- The dispersal of energy; how much energy is spread out in a process, or how widely spread out it becomes, at a specific temperature. https//web.archive.org/web/20060702234316/http://www.entropysite.com/students_approach.html
- A measure of the amount of information and noise present in a signal.
- The tendency of a system that is left to itself to descend into chaos.