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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French corruption, from Latin corrupti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k????p??n/
• Rhymes: -?p??n
• Hyphenation: cor?rup?tion

Noun

corruption (countable and uncountable, plural corruptions)

1. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity
   • 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England

     It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them.

   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.
2. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
3. The product of corruption; putrid matter.
   • 1821, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 2, page 154:

     Think of wandering amid sepulchral ruins, of stumbling over the bones of the dead, of encountering what I cannot describe,—the horror of being among those who are neither the living or the dead;—those dark and shadowless things that sport themselves with the reliques of the dead, and feast and love amid corruption,—ghastly, mocking, and terrific.

4. The decomposition of biological matter.
5. The seeking of bribes.
6. (computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
7. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.

   a corruption of style

   corruption in language

8. (linguistics) A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc.
9. Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.

Translations

Synonyms

• (economics): rent-seeking
• (act of corrupting or making putrid): adulteration, contamination, debasement, defilement, dirtying, soiling, tainting
• (state of being corrupt or putrid): decay, decomposition, deterioration, putrefaction, rotting
• (product of corruption; putrid matter): decay, putrescence, rot
• (act of impairing integrity, virtue or moral principle): depravity, wickedness, impurity, bribery
• (state of being corrupted or debased): debasement, depravity, evil, impurity, sinfulness, wickedness
• (act of changing for the worse): deterioration, worsening
• (act of being changed for the worse): destroying, ruining, spoiling
• (departure from what is pure or correct): deterioration, erosion
• (debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text): bastardization

Derived terms

• corruption of blood

References

• “corruption” in the Collins English Dictionary
• corruption at OneLook Dictionary Search
• corruption in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Old French corruption, borrowed from Latin corrupti?, corrupti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.?yp.sj??/

Noun

corruption f (plural corruptions)

1. corruption (act of corrupting)
2. corruption (state of being corrupt)
3. corruption (putrefaction)
4. (figuratively) corruption (bribing)

Related terms

Further reading

• “corruption” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• croupiront

Old French

Alternative forms

• corrumpcion, corrumption, corrupcion, corruptiun

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin corrupti?, corrupti?nem.

Noun

corruption f (oblique plural corruptions, nominative singular corruption, nominative plural corruptions)

1. corruption (state of being corrupted)

Related terms

• corrompre

Descendants

• ? English: corruption
• French: corruption

English

Etymology

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 ????? (érgon, “work”) by Ancient Greek ????? (trop?, “transformation”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt??pi/

Noun

entropy (countable and uncountable, plural entropies)

1. A measure of the disorder present in a system.

   Ludwig Boltzmann defined entropy as being directly proportional to the natural logarithm of the number of microstates yielding an equivalent thermodynamic macrostate (with the eponymous constant of proportionality). Assuming (by the fundamental postulate of statistical mechanics), that all microstates are equally probable, this means, on the one hand, that macrostates with higher entropy are more probable, and on the other hand, that for such macrostates, the quantity of information required to describe a particular one of its microstates will be higher. That is, the Shannon entropy of a macrostate would be directly proportional to the logarithm of the number of equivalent microstates (making it up). In other words, thermodynamic and informational entropies are rather compatible, which shouldn't be surprising since Claude Shannon derived the notation 'H' for information entropy from Boltzmann's H-theorem.

2. (thermodynamics, countable) strictly thermodynamic entropy. A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work.

   The thermodynamic free energy is the amount of work that a thermodynamic system can perform; it is the internal energy of a system minus the amount of energy that cannot be used to perform work. That unusable energy is given by the entropy of a system multiplied by the temperature of the system.^[1] (Note that, for both Gibbs and Helmholtz free energies, temperature is assumed to be fixed, so entropy is effectively directly proportional to useless energy.)

3. The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature [2].
4. The dispersal of energy; how much energy is spread out in a process, or how widely spread out it becomes, at a specific temperature. [3]
5. (statistics, information theory, countable) A measure of the amount of information and noise present in a signal.
6. (uncountable) The tendency of a system that is left to itself to descend into chaos.

Synonyms

• anergy
• bound entropy
• disgregation

Antonyms

• aggregation
• exergy
• free entropy
• negentropy

Derived terms

See also

• chaos

Translations

Further reading

• entropy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• entropy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• entropy at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Poynter, peryton