{
  "id": "entropy.disorder",
  "term": "entropy",
  "sense": "disorder",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "domain": "general",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A state where pattern is not the same across space or time.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension",
      "pattern.regularity"
    ],
    "interaction": "Pattern.regularity becomes less consistent across space.extent and time.dimension when many small differences accumulate without correction.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "increasing disorder",
      "irreversible change"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "organized.structure",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "organized structure resists entropy"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "entropy"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-entropy.disorder"
}