ALL meanings of heat death
heat death
H h - noun heat death Thermodynamics. (on a macroscopic scale) a function of thermodynamic variables, as temperature, pressure, or composition, that is a measure of the energy that is not available for work during a thermodynamic process. A closed system evolves toward a state of maximum entropy. (in statistical mechanics) a measure of the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system. Symbol: S. 1
- noun heat death (in data transmission and information theory) a measure of the loss of information in a transmitted signal or message. 1
- noun heat death (in cosmology) a hypothetical tendency for the universe to attain a state of maximum homogeneity in which all matter is at a uniform temperature (heat death) 1
- noun heat death a doctrine of inevitable social decline and degeneration. 1
- noun heat death the condition of any closed system when its total entropy is a maximum and it has no available energy. If the universe is a closed system, it should eventually reach this state 0