information entropy (English, noun)
expansion: information entropy (uncountable)
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topics: computing
engineering
information-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable; a measure of the average information content one is missing when one does not know the value of the random variable (usually in units such as bits); the amount of information (measured in, say, bits) contained per average instance of a character in a stream of characters.
tags: uncountable
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