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Enterprise Output Management Enterprise Output Management (EOM)is an Information Technology practice that deals with the organization, formatting, management and distribution of data that is created by enterprise applications like Banking information systems, Insurance information systems, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning Systems), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), retail systems and many others.
Enterprise resource planning Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP's) integrate (or attempt to integrate) all data and processes of an organization into a unified system. A typical ERP system will use multiple components of computer software and hardware to achieve the integration.
Enterprise Records Enterprise Records was started in 1967 as a sub-label of Stax Records. It's best known recording artist during its existence was Isaac Hayes, who secured a #1 R&B and pop crossover smash in 1971 with the soundtrack hit "Theme from Shaft".
Enterprise Relationship Management Enterprise relationship management (ERM) is computer software that analyzes data it has about its customers to develop a better understanding of the customer and how the customer is using its products and services. This kind of application may use data mining of its data warehouse or existing sales, marketing, service, finance, and manufacturing databases to generate new information about its customer relationships.
Enterprise Reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. Termed Enterprise Reporting, this process involves querying data sources with different logical models to produce a human readable report.
Enterprise Risk Management In business Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) are the methods and processes used to manage those risks, possible events or circumstances that can have influence on the enterprise in question. By identifying and proactively treating such potential effectors, one protects the very existence, the resources (human and capital), the products and services, or the customers of the enterprise, as well as external effects on society, markets or the environment.
Enterprise service bus In computing, an enterprise service bus (ESB) refers to a software architecture construct, implemented by technologies found in a category of middleware infrastructure products usually based on standards, that provides foundational services for more complex architectures via an event-driven and standards-based messaging engine (the bus).
Enterprise single sign-on Enterprise single sign-on (E-SSO) systems are designed to minimize the number of times that a user must type their ID and password to sign into multiple applications. The E-SSO solution automatically logs users in, and acts as a password filler where automatic login is not possible.
Enterprise software Enterprise Software is software that solves an enterprise problem (rather than a departmental problem) and usually enterprise software is written using Enterprise Software Architecture. Due to the cost of building what is often proprietary software only large organizations attempt to build software that models the entire business enterprise and is the core system of governing the enterprise and the core of business communications within the enterprise.
Enterprise storage Enterprise storage is the field of information technology focused on the storage, protection, and retrieval of data in large-scale environments (as is common in the field, the term 'enterprise' is used exclusively to mean large enterprises). It is differentiated from consumer storage in many practical ways, ranging from the size of the environment to the technologies used.
Enterprise Search Marketing Enterprise Search Marketing, also known as Enterprise Search Engine Marketing, is a subset of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) that relates specifically to the implementation, management and measurement of SEM programs at scale – across a variety of business units, geographies, budgets, local languages, search engines and target audiences. As with Search Engine Marketing, there are three main methods: Search Engine Optimization (SEO), paid search engine advertising or pay per click advertising and paid inclusion.
Enterprise value Enterprise value (EV), Total enterprise value (TEV), or Firm value (FV) is a market value measure of a company from the point of view of the aggregate of all the financing sources; debtholders, preferred shareholders, minority shareholders and common equity holders. Because EV is a capital structure-neutral metric, it is useful when comparing companies with diverse capital structures.
Enterprise Vault Symantec Enterprise Vault (EV) is a product of Symantec Corporation and is one of the most widely-installed email archiving solutionsKey Findings From "The Forrester Wave™: Message Archiving Software, Q4 2005": http://www.forrester.
Enterprises in the Soviet Union Enterprises in the Soviet Union were legal entities engaged in some kind of economic activity: production, distribution, services, and other kinds of works. The term is a general equivalent of the term "company"
Enterprisey Enterprisey is a derogatory term describing sophisticated software architecture which is claimed to be good enough (robust, flexible, etc.) for use in enterprise applications, but in fact is merely excessively complex and baroque.
Entertainers Basketball Classic Entertainers Basketball Classic is street ball that is played at Rucker Park and is often referred to as 155th street. The Entertainers Basketball Classic was founded by Greg Marius about 20 years ago and continues the tradition that began in Rucker Park more than 50 years ago.
Entertainers in Mexico Mexico is considered as the Hollywood of Latin America because of the strength of its music and television industry as well as its history of Cinema. Foreign artists have started or continued their career in Mexico, especially in the telenovela industry.
Entertaining u Entertaining U, also known as EU Jacksonville, is North Florida's largest and oldest free weekly entertainment publication. Originally distributed as The Southeast Entertainer in 1976 by Anthony Trotti, it was changed to the First Coast Entertainer in the 80s and finally Entertaining U when Will Henley became the publisher in 2002 in a joint ownership with Trotti's Son David.
Entertainment Entertainment is an event, performance, or activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience (although, for example, in the case of a computer game the "audience" may be only one person). The audience may participate in the entertainment passively as in watching opera, or actively as in computer games.
Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) is an organisation set up in 1989 by British software publishers. It was known as The European Leisure Software Publishers Association until 2002.
Entertainment Building Entertainment Building (娛樂行) is a building at Queen's Road Central between the two junctions with Wyndham Street and D'Aguilar Street in Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. The architecture and height of the building make it distinctive amongst the old office buildings nearby.
Entertainment center A home entertainment center (or stereo console) is a piece of furniture seen in many homes in North America, which houses major electronic items, such as a television set, a VCR and/or DVD player, stereo components (such as an AM/FM tuner, multi-disc compact disc changer, record player, one or more cassette players and graphic equalizer), and cable or satellite television receivers. A stereo console would contain components built into a cabinet, as was popular in the 1960s.
Entertainment Center (River Line station) Entertainment Center is a station on the River Line light rail system, located on Delaware Avenue in Camden, New Jersey. It is the southern terminus of the River Line, and is named for the nearby Tweeter Center at the Waterfront (formerly the Blockbuster/Sony Entertainment Center).
Entertainment Computer System The Entertainment Computer System was an add-on peripheral for the Intellivision. It was created and released to appease the Federal Trade Commission who fined Mattel Electronics for false and misleading advertising for failing to mass-release the originally-planned Intellivision Keyboard Component add-on.
Entertainment Consumers Association The Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA), is a United States-based nonpartisan, non-government, non-profit organization dedicated to the interests of individuals who play computer and video games in the United States. Game consumers in the US represent over 30 million americans and the industry exceeds $10 billion in gross sales annually.
Entertainment law Entertainment law or media law is a general term for a mix of more traditional categories of law with a focus on providing legal services to the entertainment industry. The principal areas of Entertainment Law overlap substantially with the well-known and conventional field of Intellectual Property Law.
Entertainment Management Entertainment Management is a relatively new business management discipline that is increasingly being taught as a Bachelors of Art degree. Entertainment Management courses aim to provide graduates with appropriate knowledge and skills to progress into management careers within the entertainment sector, managing facilities such as theme parks, theatres, cinemas, live music venues, museums, art galleries, broadcast media companies and night clubs.
Entertainment robot An entertainment robot is, as the name indicates, a robot that is not made for utilitarian use, as in production or domestic services, but for the sole subjective pleasure -an emotion, something machines, even the 'smartest' computers, are not capable to have- of the human it serves, usually the owner or his housemates, guests or clients. Robotics technologies are applied in many areas of culture and entertainment.
Entertainment Software Association The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is the trade association of the computer and video game industry in the United States. It was formed in April 1994 as the Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA) and was renamed to ESA on July 16, 2003.
Entertainment Software Publishing Entertainment Software Publishing (エăłă‚żăĽă†ă‚¤ăłăˇăłăă»ă‚˝ă•ăウェアă»ă‘ă–ăŞăă‚·ăłă‚°), or ESP, is a computer game publisher. It was created in 1997, primarily as a support company for the developer studios that made up GD-NET (Game Developers Network).
Entertainment Software Rating Board The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is a self-regulatory organization that applies and enforces ratings, advertising guidelines, and online privacy principles for computer and video games and other entertainment software in the United States and Canada (officially adopted by individual provinces 2004-2005). It was established in 1994 by the Interactive Digital Software Association (now the Entertainment Software Association).
Entertainment Spotlight Entertainment Spotlight is an English-language entertainment news program on CTV in Québec. The program is hosted on location in trendy locations in Montréal, and focuses on movies and leisure in-and-around the city.
Entertainment technology Entertainment technology is the discipline of using manufactured or created components to enhance or make possible any sort of entertainment experience. Because entertainment categories are so broad, and because entertainment models the world in many ways, the types of implemented technology are derived from a variety of sources.
Entertainment Tonight Entertainment Tonight is a daily television entertainment news show that is syndicated by CBS Paramount Domestic Television throughout the United States, Canada, on the Nine Network in Australia and on UBC Inside in Thailand. The show is the most popular and longest-running entertainment news program, with its first broadcast on September 14, 1981, and was the first syndicated program distributed via satellite.
Entertainment Tonight Canada Entertainment Tonight Canada (often shortened to ET Canada) is a Canadian entertainment newsmagazine series, launched on September 12, 2005 on Global. The program is patterned after the American series Entertainment Tonight, and collaborates closely with its American parent.
Entertainment Tonight UK Entertainment Tonight UK (usually presented on screen as simply Entertainment Tonight) is a British version of Paramount's Entertainment Tonight celebrity news show. The British show is fronted by Amanda Byram and launched in January 2005 on pay TV channel Sky One, which also screens episodes of the US version a day after the American broadcast.
Entertainments National Service Association The Entertainments National Service Association, or ENSA was an organisation set up in 1939 by Basil Dean to provide entertainment for British armed forces personnel during World War 2. ENSA operated as part of the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes.
Entertech Entertech was a brand of motorized squirt guns sold in the United States during the 1980s. Unlike the colorful design of Super Soakers, Entertech squirt guns were designed like actual assault weapons and painted matte black to appear realistic.
Enthalpy In thermodynamics and molecular chemistry, the enthalpy or heat content (denoted as H or ΔH, or rarely as χ) is a quotient or description of thermodynamic potential of a system, which can be used to calculate the "useful" work obtainable from a closed thermodynamic system under constant conditions.
Entheogen An entheogen, in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance (most often some plant matter with hallucinogenic effects) that occasions an enlightening spiritual or mystical experience. In a broader sense, the word "entheogen" refers to artificial as well as natural substances that induce alterations of consciousness similar to those documented for ritual ingestion of traditional shamanic inebriants, even if it is used in a secular context.
Enthusiasm Enthusiasm (Greek: enthousiasmos) originally meant inspiration or possession by a divine afflatus or by the presence of a God. Johnson's Dictionary, the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, divines enthusiasm as "a vain belief of private revelation; a vain confidence of divine favour or communication.
Enthymeme An enthymeme is a syllogism (a three-part deductive argument) with an unstated assumption which must be true for the premises to lead to the conclusion. In an enthymeme, part of the argument is missing because it is assumed.
Enticho (woreda) Enticho is one of the 36 woredas in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Mehakelegnaw Zone, Enticho is bordered on the south by Werie Lehe, on the southwest by Adwa, on the west by Mereb Lehe, on the north by Eritrea, and on the east by the Misraqawi (Eastern) Zone.
Entire function In complex analysis, an entire function is a function that is holomorphic everywhere on the whole complex plane. Typical examples of entire functions are the polynomials, the exponential function, and sums, products and compositions of these.
Entitative graph An entitative graph is an element of the graphical syntax for logic that Charles Sanders Peirce developed under the name of qualitative logic beginning in the 1880's, taking the coverage of the formalism only as far as the propositional or sentential aspects of logic are concerned. See 3.
Entitlement Theory Entitlement Theory is Robert Nozick's theory of private property. It is based on John Locke's ideas and revolves around entitlements and Nozick's ideas of who is entitled to what, according to their class and needs, plus other factors.
Entity Bean An Entity Bean is a type of Enterprise JavaBean, a server-side Java EE component, that represents persistent data maintained in a database. An entity bean can manage its own persistence (Bean managed persistence) or can delegate this function to its EJB Container (Container managed persistence).
Entity integrity In a relational database, entity integrity is a property that ensures that no records are duplicated and that no attributes that make up the primary key are NULL. It is one of the properties necessary to ensure the consistency of the database.
Entity Paradigm (eP) Entity Paradigm (also known colloquially as EP) is a Pakistani pop/rock music band. EP also fuses of different elements of music like alternative rock, rock music, rap and ambience, and is influenced by bands like Linkin Park, Creed, Staind amongst other Western dynamos.
Entity realism Entity realism is a philosophical position within the debate about scientific realism. Whereas traditional scientific realism argues that our best scientific theories are true, or approximately true, or closer to the truth than their predecessors, entity realism does not commit itself to judgments concerning the truth of scientific theories.
Entity-relationship model Databases are used to store structured data. The structure of this data, together with other constraints, can be designed using a variety of techniques, one of which is called entity-relationship modeling or ERM.
Entlebucher Mountain Dog The Entlebucher Mountain Dog is the smallest of the four Swiss mountain dog and cattle dogs. It is also known as the Entlebucher Sennenhund, Entelbuch Mountain Dog, Entelbucher Cattle Dog and similar combinations.
Entner-Doudoroff Pathway The Entner-Doudoroff pathway describes a series of reactions that catabolize glucose to pyruvate using a different set of enzymes from those used in either glycolysis or the pentose phosphate pathway. This pathway can occur only in prokaryotes.
Entombed (video game) Entombed is a video game for the Commodore 64 developed and released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1984. It is the first sequel to The Staff of Karnath, and features the same aristocrat adventurer, Sir Arthur Pendragon.
Entomobryidae The family Entomobryidae contains the so-called "slender springtails", a group of springtails characterised as having an enlarged fourth abdominal segment and a well-developed furcula. Species in this family are heavily scaled and can be very colourful.
Entomological Society of America The Entomological Society of America (ESA) was founded in 1889 and today has more than 6,000 members, including educators, extension personnel, consultants, students, researchers, and scientists from agricultural departments, health agencies, private industries, colleges and universities, and state and federal governments. It serves the professional and scientific needs of entomologists and people in related disciplines.
Entomopathogenic nematode Entomopathogenic nematodes are soil-inhabiting, lethal insect parasites that belong to the phylum Nematoda, commonly called roundworms. The term entomopathogenic comes from the Greek word entomon, meaning insect, and pathogenic, which means causing disease.
Entomophobia Entomophobia (also known as Insectophobia) is the abnormal fear of insects and similar arthropods, and even other "bugs", such as worms. Commonly, this condition might be referred to as the "Fear of insects or bugs".
Entomostraca Entomostraca is a historical subclass of Crustacea, no longer in technical use, which includes the Phyllopoda, Branchiopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. The Ostracoda have the body enclosed in a bivalve shell-covering, and normally unsegmented.
Entonox Entonox, referred to colloquially as gas and air, is an analgesic used to ease pain during labour, trauma and minor surgical procedures. Entonox is the trade name for a mixture of fifty percent nitrous oxide (N2O or laughing gas) and fifty percent oxygen (O2) so a more appropriate name would be gas and oxygen.
Entoto Mountains The Entoto Mountains (also called the Entoto Hills) lie immediately north of Addis Ababa, in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. They are known for their views over the capital, and are the location for Addis Ababa's immediate predecessor as capital.
Entr'acte Entr'acte is French for "between the acts". It can have the meaning of a pause between two parts of a stage production, synonym to intermission, but is more often used to indicate that part of a theatre production that is performed between acts as an intermezzo or interlude.
Entrainment (meteorology) Entrainment is a phenomenon of the atmosphere which occurs when one wind flow captures another. It is typically used to refer to the capture of a wind flow of high moisture content, or in the case of tropical cyclones, the capture of drier air.
Entrance (display manager) In computing, Entrance is a display manager for the X Window System designed with the Enlightenment window manager in mind. In other words, it's a program that lets you log in to a (probably Unix-based) computer.
Entrance (Liturgical) In Eastern Orthodoxy, an entrance is a liturgical movement from one part of the sanctuary to another. Entrances generally originated in times when functions now concentrated in the sanctuary, such as the proskomedia and the storage of liturgical vessels, were segregated into separate architectural elements and the procession was needed to bring the objects into the church.
Entrance facility In telecommunications, Entrance facility refers to the entrance to a building for both public and private network service cables (including antenna transmission lines, where applicable), including the entrance point at the building wall or floor, and continuing to the entrance room or entrance space.
Entrance of the Conflagration Entrance of the Conflagration is the third song released from metal band Trivium's third studio album, "The Crusade", which was released on October 10, 2006. The lyrics deal with Andrea Yates' murder of her five children in her home by drowning them in her bathtub one-by-one (Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity).
Entrance of the Gladiators "Entrance of the Gladiators" or "Entry of the Gladiators" (Czech: Vjezd gladiátorĹŻ, German: Einzug der Gladiatoren) is a military march composed in 1897 by the Czech composer Julius FuÄŤĂk. Written for the calliope, the march has since become indelibly linked to clowns and the circus, where it became known as "Thunder and Blazes".
Entrance pupil In an optical system, the entrance pupil is a virtual aperture that defines the area at the entrance of the system that can accept light. Rays that pass through the pupil are able to enter the optical system and pass through it to the exit (neglecting vignetting).
Entrance to Central Miami The Entrance to Central Miami (also known as Coral Gables Wayside Park) is a historic site in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. It is located west of Red Road between Southwest 34th and Southwest 35th Streets.
Entrapment In jurisprudence, entrapment is a legal defense by which a defendant may argue that he or she should not be held criminally liable for actions which broke the law, because they were induced (or entrapped) by the police to commit said acts. For the defense to be successful, the defendant must demonstrate that the police induced an otherwise unwilling person to commit a crime.
Entravision Communications Entravision Communications Corporation is a media company based in Santa Monica, California. Entravision primarily caters to the Spanish-speaking Hispanic community and owns television and radio stations and outdoor media, including billboards, in several of the top Hispanic markets.
Entre a Mi Mundo Entre a Mi Mundo was the third studio album release by Tejano singer Selena under EMI Latin, a month after her marriage to guitarist Chris Perez. When this album was released, the label was starting to explore alternatives to spread Selena's talent throughout Latin markets other than Tejano.
Entre Douro e Minho Entre Douro e Minho is a historical province of Portugal which encompassed the country's northern Atlantic seaboard between the Douro and Minho rivers. Contemporaries often referred to the province as simply "Minho".
Entre RĂos Province Entre RĂos is a province of Argentina, located in the Mesopotamia region, in the northeast of the country. It borders the provinces of Buenos Aires (south), Corrientes (north) and Santa Fe (west), and Uruguay in the east.
Entrelac Entrelac is a knitting technique used to create a textured diamond pattern. While the end result resembles basket-woven strips of knitted fabric, the actual material comprises interconnected squares on two different orientations.
Entremés Entremés, is a short and comic theatrical performance of one act, usually played during the interlude of a performance of a long dramatic work, in the 16th and 17th centuries in Spain. Later it became the sainete.
Entrenched river An entrenched river is a river that is confined to a canyon or gorge, usually with a relatively narrow width and little or no flood plain, and often with meanders worn into the landscape. Such rivers form when an area is elevated rapidly or for some other reason the base level of erosion is rapidly lowered, so that the river begins downcutting into its channel faster than it can change course (which rivers normally do on a constant basis).
Entrenching tool Commonly referred to as an "E-tool", it is often a collapsible shovel used by military forces for digging of latrines, foxholes, fighting positions, etc. Survivalists, campers, hikers, and other outdoors groups have found it to be indispensable in field use.
Entrenchment clause An entrenchment clause of a constitution is a provision which makes certain amendments either more difficult than others or impossible. It may require some form of supermajority, a referendum or the consent of some other party if it is allowed at all.
EntrepĂ´t An entrepĂ´t (French, literally warehouse) is a trading centre, or simply a warehouse, where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying import duties, often at a profit. This profit is possible because of trade conditions, for example, the reluctance of ships to travel the entire length of a long trading route, and selling to the entrepĂ´t instead.
Entrepreneur An entrepreneur (a loanword from French introduced and first defined by an Irish economist named Richard Cantillon) is a person who undertakes and operates a new enterprise or venture and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks. In the context of the creation of for-profit enterprises, entrepreneur is often synonymous with founder.
Entrepreneurial Economics If entrepreneurship remains as important to the economy as ever, then the continuing failure of mainstream economics to adequately account for entrepreneurship indicates that fundamental principles require re-evaluation. Entrepreneurial Economics is the study of the entrepreneur and entrepreneurship within the economy.
Entrepreneurial network In business, entrepreneurial networks are social organizations offering different types of resources to start or improve entrepreneurial projects. Having adequate human resources is a key factor for entrepreneurial achievements.
Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the practice of starting new organizations, particularly new businesses generally in response to identified opportunities. Entrepreneurship is often a difficult undertaking, as a majority of new businesses fail.
Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI or EDII) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promote entrepreneurship that is based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It was founded in 1983 with the sponsorship of the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI), the Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI), the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) and State Bank of India (SBI).
Entrepreneurship education Entrepreneurship education seeks to provide students with the knowledge, skills and motivation do enact entrepreneurial possibilities, often in a variety of settings. Variations of entrepreneurship education are offered at all levels of schooling from K-12 schools through graduate university programs.
Entrez The Entrez Global Query Cross-Database Search System allows access to databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website. NCBI is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), itself a department of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the United States government.
Entropia Universe Entropia Universe is an online virtual universe designed by Swedish software company MindArk. It has a unique "Real Cash Economy" (RCE), in which Entropia Universe currency (PED - Project Entropia Dollar) can be redeemed back into real world funds through a fixed exchange rate with the US dollar, where 10 PED = $1 USD.
Entropic explosion An entropic explosion is an explosion in which the reactants undergo a large change in volume without releasing a large amount of heat. The chemical decomposition of triacetone triperoxide or TATP is an example of an entropic explosion.
Entropic force In physics, an entropic force acting in a system is a macroscopic force whose properties are primarily determined not by the character of a particular underlying microscopic force (such as electromagnetism), but by the whole system's statistical tendency to increase its entropy.
Entropic security Entropic security is a security definition for encryption for specific message spaces. Standard security definitions such as semantic security permit the adversary a great deal of knowledge about the messages being encrypted--- for example, the adversary is often allowed to specify a two-element message space.
Entropy (arrow of time) Entropy is the only quantity in the physical sciences that "picks" a particular direction for time, sometimes called an arrow of time. As we go "forward" in time, the Second Law of Thermodynamics tells us that the entropy of an isolated system can only increase or remain the same; it cannot decrease.
Entropy (board game) There are at least two board games known under the name Entropy, one invented by Eric Solomon and published in 1977, the other by Augustine Carreno in 1994. Both are two-player abstract strategic games played on square boards.
Entropy (classical thermodynamics) In thermodynamics, entropy is a measure of how close a thermodynamic system is to equilibrium. A thermodynamic system is any physical object or region of space that can be described by its thermodynamic quantities such as temperature, pressure, volume and density.
Entropy (comics) Entropy is a Cosmic Entity in the Marvel Comics Universe who possesses Nigh-Omnipotence. A representation of Eternity formed at the beginning of time, whose purpose is to undo, so the cycle of creation and destruction will forever continue.
Entropy (energy dispersal) The thermodynamic concept of entropy can be described qualitatively as a measure of energy dispersal at a specific temperature. Changes in entropy can be quantitatively related to the distribution or the spreading out of the energy of a thermodynamic system divided by its temperature.
Entropy (film) Entropy is a movie directed by Phil Joanou, starring Stephen Dorff and featuring Bono of the Irish rock band U2. The film is largely autobiographical, covering his early film career, his relationships (including a very short-lived marriage) and his pet cat.
Entropy (statistical thermodynamics) In thermodynamics, statistical entropy is the modeling of the energetic function entropy using probability theory. The statistical entropy perspective was introduced in 1870 with the work of the Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann.
Entropy encoding An entropy encoding is a coding scheme that assigns codes to symbols so as to match code lengths with the probabilities of the symbols. Typically, entropy encoders are used to compress data by replacing symbols represented by equal-length codes with symbols represented by codes where the length of each codeword is proportional to the negative logarithm of the probability.
Enterprise resource planning Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP's) integrate (or attempt to integrate) all data and processes of an organization into a unified system. A typical ERP system will use multiple components of computer software and hardware to achieve the integration.
Enterprise Records Enterprise Records was started in 1967 as a sub-label of Stax Records. It's best known recording artist during its existence was Isaac Hayes, who secured a #1 R&B and pop crossover smash in 1971 with the soundtrack hit "Theme from Shaft".
Enterprise Relationship Management Enterprise relationship management (ERM) is computer software that analyzes data it has about its customers to develop a better understanding of the customer and how the customer is using its products and services. This kind of application may use data mining of its data warehouse or existing sales, marketing, service, finance, and manufacturing databases to generate new information about its customer relationships.
Enterprise Reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. Termed Enterprise Reporting, this process involves querying data sources with different logical models to produce a human readable report.
Enterprise Risk Management In business Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) are the methods and processes used to manage those risks, possible events or circumstances that can have influence on the enterprise in question. By identifying and proactively treating such potential effectors, one protects the very existence, the resources (human and capital), the products and services, or the customers of the enterprise, as well as external effects on society, markets or the environment.
Enterprise service bus In computing, an enterprise service bus (ESB) refers to a software architecture construct, implemented by technologies found in a category of middleware infrastructure products usually based on standards, that provides foundational services for more complex architectures via an event-driven and standards-based messaging engine (the bus).
Enterprise single sign-on Enterprise single sign-on (E-SSO) systems are designed to minimize the number of times that a user must type their ID and password to sign into multiple applications. The E-SSO solution automatically logs users in, and acts as a password filler where automatic login is not possible.
Enterprise software Enterprise Software is software that solves an enterprise problem (rather than a departmental problem) and usually enterprise software is written using Enterprise Software Architecture. Due to the cost of building what is often proprietary software only large organizations attempt to build software that models the entire business enterprise and is the core system of governing the enterprise and the core of business communications within the enterprise.
Enterprise storage Enterprise storage is the field of information technology focused on the storage, protection, and retrieval of data in large-scale environments (as is common in the field, the term 'enterprise' is used exclusively to mean large enterprises). It is differentiated from consumer storage in many practical ways, ranging from the size of the environment to the technologies used.
Enterprise Search Marketing Enterprise Search Marketing, also known as Enterprise Search Engine Marketing, is a subset of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) that relates specifically to the implementation, management and measurement of SEM programs at scale – across a variety of business units, geographies, budgets, local languages, search engines and target audiences. As with Search Engine Marketing, there are three main methods: Search Engine Optimization (SEO), paid search engine advertising or pay per click advertising and paid inclusion.
Enterprise value Enterprise value (EV), Total enterprise value (TEV), or Firm value (FV) is a market value measure of a company from the point of view of the aggregate of all the financing sources; debtholders, preferred shareholders, minority shareholders and common equity holders. Because EV is a capital structure-neutral metric, it is useful when comparing companies with diverse capital structures.
Enterprise Vault Symantec Enterprise Vault (EV) is a product of Symantec Corporation and is one of the most widely-installed email archiving solutionsKey Findings From "The Forrester Wave™: Message Archiving Software, Q4 2005": http://www.forrester.
Enterprises in the Soviet Union Enterprises in the Soviet Union were legal entities engaged in some kind of economic activity: production, distribution, services, and other kinds of works. The term is a general equivalent of the term "company"
Enterprisey Enterprisey is a derogatory term describing sophisticated software architecture which is claimed to be good enough (robust, flexible, etc.) for use in enterprise applications, but in fact is merely excessively complex and baroque.
Entertainers Basketball Classic Entertainers Basketball Classic is street ball that is played at Rucker Park and is often referred to as 155th street. The Entertainers Basketball Classic was founded by Greg Marius about 20 years ago and continues the tradition that began in Rucker Park more than 50 years ago.
Entertainers in Mexico Mexico is considered as the Hollywood of Latin America because of the strength of its music and television industry as well as its history of Cinema. Foreign artists have started or continued their career in Mexico, especially in the telenovela industry.
Entertaining u Entertaining U, also known as EU Jacksonville, is North Florida's largest and oldest free weekly entertainment publication. Originally distributed as The Southeast Entertainer in 1976 by Anthony Trotti, it was changed to the First Coast Entertainer in the 80s and finally Entertaining U when Will Henley became the publisher in 2002 in a joint ownership with Trotti's Son David.
Entertainment Entertainment is an event, performance, or activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience (although, for example, in the case of a computer game the "audience" may be only one person). The audience may participate in the entertainment passively as in watching opera, or actively as in computer games.
Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) is an organisation set up in 1989 by British software publishers. It was known as The European Leisure Software Publishers Association until 2002.
Entertainment Building Entertainment Building (娛樂行) is a building at Queen's Road Central between the two junctions with Wyndham Street and D'Aguilar Street in Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. The architecture and height of the building make it distinctive amongst the old office buildings nearby.
Entertainment center A home entertainment center (or stereo console) is a piece of furniture seen in many homes in North America, which houses major electronic items, such as a television set, a VCR and/or DVD player, stereo components (such as an AM/FM tuner, multi-disc compact disc changer, record player, one or more cassette players and graphic equalizer), and cable or satellite television receivers. A stereo console would contain components built into a cabinet, as was popular in the 1960s.
Entertainment Center (River Line station) Entertainment Center is a station on the River Line light rail system, located on Delaware Avenue in Camden, New Jersey. It is the southern terminus of the River Line, and is named for the nearby Tweeter Center at the Waterfront (formerly the Blockbuster/Sony Entertainment Center).
Entertainment Computer System The Entertainment Computer System was an add-on peripheral for the Intellivision. It was created and released to appease the Federal Trade Commission who fined Mattel Electronics for false and misleading advertising for failing to mass-release the originally-planned Intellivision Keyboard Component add-on.
Entertainment Consumers Association The Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA), is a United States-based nonpartisan, non-government, non-profit organization dedicated to the interests of individuals who play computer and video games in the United States. Game consumers in the US represent over 30 million americans and the industry exceeds $10 billion in gross sales annually.
Entertainment law Entertainment law or media law is a general term for a mix of more traditional categories of law with a focus on providing legal services to the entertainment industry. The principal areas of Entertainment Law overlap substantially with the well-known and conventional field of Intellectual Property Law.
Entertainment Management Entertainment Management is a relatively new business management discipline that is increasingly being taught as a Bachelors of Art degree. Entertainment Management courses aim to provide graduates with appropriate knowledge and skills to progress into management careers within the entertainment sector, managing facilities such as theme parks, theatres, cinemas, live music venues, museums, art galleries, broadcast media companies and night clubs.
Entertainment robot An entertainment robot is, as the name indicates, a robot that is not made for utilitarian use, as in production or domestic services, but for the sole subjective pleasure -an emotion, something machines, even the 'smartest' computers, are not capable to have- of the human it serves, usually the owner or his housemates, guests or clients. Robotics technologies are applied in many areas of culture and entertainment.
Entertainment Software Association The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is the trade association of the computer and video game industry in the United States. It was formed in April 1994 as the Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA) and was renamed to ESA on July 16, 2003.
Entertainment Software Publishing Entertainment Software Publishing (エăłă‚żăĽă†ă‚¤ăłăˇăłăă»ă‚˝ă•ăウェアă»ă‘ă–ăŞăă‚·ăłă‚°), or ESP, is a computer game publisher. It was created in 1997, primarily as a support company for the developer studios that made up GD-NET (Game Developers Network).
Entertainment Software Rating Board The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is a self-regulatory organization that applies and enforces ratings, advertising guidelines, and online privacy principles for computer and video games and other entertainment software in the United States and Canada (officially adopted by individual provinces 2004-2005). It was established in 1994 by the Interactive Digital Software Association (now the Entertainment Software Association).
Entertainment Spotlight Entertainment Spotlight is an English-language entertainment news program on CTV in Québec. The program is hosted on location in trendy locations in Montréal, and focuses on movies and leisure in-and-around the city.
Entertainment technology Entertainment technology is the discipline of using manufactured or created components to enhance or make possible any sort of entertainment experience. Because entertainment categories are so broad, and because entertainment models the world in many ways, the types of implemented technology are derived from a variety of sources.
Entertainment Tonight Entertainment Tonight is a daily television entertainment news show that is syndicated by CBS Paramount Domestic Television throughout the United States, Canada, on the Nine Network in Australia and on UBC Inside in Thailand. The show is the most popular and longest-running entertainment news program, with its first broadcast on September 14, 1981, and was the first syndicated program distributed via satellite.
Entertainment Tonight Canada Entertainment Tonight Canada (often shortened to ET Canada) is a Canadian entertainment newsmagazine series, launched on September 12, 2005 on Global. The program is patterned after the American series Entertainment Tonight, and collaborates closely with its American parent.
Entertainment Tonight UK Entertainment Tonight UK (usually presented on screen as simply Entertainment Tonight) is a British version of Paramount's Entertainment Tonight celebrity news show. The British show is fronted by Amanda Byram and launched in January 2005 on pay TV channel Sky One, which also screens episodes of the US version a day after the American broadcast.
Entertainments National Service Association The Entertainments National Service Association, or ENSA was an organisation set up in 1939 by Basil Dean to provide entertainment for British armed forces personnel during World War 2. ENSA operated as part of the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes.
Entertech Entertech was a brand of motorized squirt guns sold in the United States during the 1980s. Unlike the colorful design of Super Soakers, Entertech squirt guns were designed like actual assault weapons and painted matte black to appear realistic.
Enthalpy In thermodynamics and molecular chemistry, the enthalpy or heat content (denoted as H or ΔH, or rarely as χ) is a quotient or description of thermodynamic potential of a system, which can be used to calculate the "useful" work obtainable from a closed thermodynamic system under constant conditions.
Entheogen An entheogen, in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance (most often some plant matter with hallucinogenic effects) that occasions an enlightening spiritual or mystical experience. In a broader sense, the word "entheogen" refers to artificial as well as natural substances that induce alterations of consciousness similar to those documented for ritual ingestion of traditional shamanic inebriants, even if it is used in a secular context.
Enthusiasm Enthusiasm (Greek: enthousiasmos) originally meant inspiration or possession by a divine afflatus or by the presence of a God. Johnson's Dictionary, the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, divines enthusiasm as "a vain belief of private revelation; a vain confidence of divine favour or communication.
Enthymeme An enthymeme is a syllogism (a three-part deductive argument) with an unstated assumption which must be true for the premises to lead to the conclusion. In an enthymeme, part of the argument is missing because it is assumed.
Enticho (woreda) Enticho is one of the 36 woredas in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Mehakelegnaw Zone, Enticho is bordered on the south by Werie Lehe, on the southwest by Adwa, on the west by Mereb Lehe, on the north by Eritrea, and on the east by the Misraqawi (Eastern) Zone.
Entire function In complex analysis, an entire function is a function that is holomorphic everywhere on the whole complex plane. Typical examples of entire functions are the polynomials, the exponential function, and sums, products and compositions of these.
Entitative graph An entitative graph is an element of the graphical syntax for logic that Charles Sanders Peirce developed under the name of qualitative logic beginning in the 1880's, taking the coverage of the formalism only as far as the propositional or sentential aspects of logic are concerned. See 3.
Entitlement Theory Entitlement Theory is Robert Nozick's theory of private property. It is based on John Locke's ideas and revolves around entitlements and Nozick's ideas of who is entitled to what, according to their class and needs, plus other factors.
Entity Bean An Entity Bean is a type of Enterprise JavaBean, a server-side Java EE component, that represents persistent data maintained in a database. An entity bean can manage its own persistence (Bean managed persistence) or can delegate this function to its EJB Container (Container managed persistence).
Entity integrity In a relational database, entity integrity is a property that ensures that no records are duplicated and that no attributes that make up the primary key are NULL. It is one of the properties necessary to ensure the consistency of the database.
Entity Paradigm (eP) Entity Paradigm (also known colloquially as EP) is a Pakistani pop/rock music band. EP also fuses of different elements of music like alternative rock, rock music, rap and ambience, and is influenced by bands like Linkin Park, Creed, Staind amongst other Western dynamos.
Entity realism Entity realism is a philosophical position within the debate about scientific realism. Whereas traditional scientific realism argues that our best scientific theories are true, or approximately true, or closer to the truth than their predecessors, entity realism does not commit itself to judgments concerning the truth of scientific theories.
Entity-relationship model Databases are used to store structured data. The structure of this data, together with other constraints, can be designed using a variety of techniques, one of which is called entity-relationship modeling or ERM.
Entlebucher Mountain Dog The Entlebucher Mountain Dog is the smallest of the four Swiss mountain dog and cattle dogs. It is also known as the Entlebucher Sennenhund, Entelbuch Mountain Dog, Entelbucher Cattle Dog and similar combinations.
Entner-Doudoroff Pathway The Entner-Doudoroff pathway describes a series of reactions that catabolize glucose to pyruvate using a different set of enzymes from those used in either glycolysis or the pentose phosphate pathway. This pathway can occur only in prokaryotes.
Entombed (video game) Entombed is a video game for the Commodore 64 developed and released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1984. It is the first sequel to The Staff of Karnath, and features the same aristocrat adventurer, Sir Arthur Pendragon.
Entomobryidae The family Entomobryidae contains the so-called "slender springtails", a group of springtails characterised as having an enlarged fourth abdominal segment and a well-developed furcula. Species in this family are heavily scaled and can be very colourful.
Entomological Society of America The Entomological Society of America (ESA) was founded in 1889 and today has more than 6,000 members, including educators, extension personnel, consultants, students, researchers, and scientists from agricultural departments, health agencies, private industries, colleges and universities, and state and federal governments. It serves the professional and scientific needs of entomologists and people in related disciplines.
Entomopathogenic nematode Entomopathogenic nematodes are soil-inhabiting, lethal insect parasites that belong to the phylum Nematoda, commonly called roundworms. The term entomopathogenic comes from the Greek word entomon, meaning insect, and pathogenic, which means causing disease.
Entomophobia Entomophobia (also known as Insectophobia) is the abnormal fear of insects and similar arthropods, and even other "bugs", such as worms. Commonly, this condition might be referred to as the "Fear of insects or bugs".
Entomostraca Entomostraca is a historical subclass of Crustacea, no longer in technical use, which includes the Phyllopoda, Branchiopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. The Ostracoda have the body enclosed in a bivalve shell-covering, and normally unsegmented.
Entonox Entonox, referred to colloquially as gas and air, is an analgesic used to ease pain during labour, trauma and minor surgical procedures. Entonox is the trade name for a mixture of fifty percent nitrous oxide (N2O or laughing gas) and fifty percent oxygen (O2) so a more appropriate name would be gas and oxygen.
Entoto Mountains The Entoto Mountains (also called the Entoto Hills) lie immediately north of Addis Ababa, in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. They are known for their views over the capital, and are the location for Addis Ababa's immediate predecessor as capital.
Entr'acte Entr'acte is French for "between the acts". It can have the meaning of a pause between two parts of a stage production, synonym to intermission, but is more often used to indicate that part of a theatre production that is performed between acts as an intermezzo or interlude.
Entrainment (meteorology) Entrainment is a phenomenon of the atmosphere which occurs when one wind flow captures another. It is typically used to refer to the capture of a wind flow of high moisture content, or in the case of tropical cyclones, the capture of drier air.
Entrance (display manager) In computing, Entrance is a display manager for the X Window System designed with the Enlightenment window manager in mind. In other words, it's a program that lets you log in to a (probably Unix-based) computer.
Entrance (Liturgical) In Eastern Orthodoxy, an entrance is a liturgical movement from one part of the sanctuary to another. Entrances generally originated in times when functions now concentrated in the sanctuary, such as the proskomedia and the storage of liturgical vessels, were segregated into separate architectural elements and the procession was needed to bring the objects into the church.
Entrance facility In telecommunications, Entrance facility refers to the entrance to a building for both public and private network service cables (including antenna transmission lines, where applicable), including the entrance point at the building wall or floor, and continuing to the entrance room or entrance space.
Entrance of the Conflagration Entrance of the Conflagration is the third song released from metal band Trivium's third studio album, "The Crusade", which was released on October 10, 2006. The lyrics deal with Andrea Yates' murder of her five children in her home by drowning them in her bathtub one-by-one (Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity).
Entrance of the Gladiators "Entrance of the Gladiators" or "Entry of the Gladiators" (Czech: Vjezd gladiátorĹŻ, German: Einzug der Gladiatoren) is a military march composed in 1897 by the Czech composer Julius FuÄŤĂk. Written for the calliope, the march has since become indelibly linked to clowns and the circus, where it became known as "Thunder and Blazes".
Entrance pupil In an optical system, the entrance pupil is a virtual aperture that defines the area at the entrance of the system that can accept light. Rays that pass through the pupil are able to enter the optical system and pass through it to the exit (neglecting vignetting).
Entrance to Central Miami The Entrance to Central Miami (also known as Coral Gables Wayside Park) is a historic site in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. It is located west of Red Road between Southwest 34th and Southwest 35th Streets.
Entrapment In jurisprudence, entrapment is a legal defense by which a defendant may argue that he or she should not be held criminally liable for actions which broke the law, because they were induced (or entrapped) by the police to commit said acts. For the defense to be successful, the defendant must demonstrate that the police induced an otherwise unwilling person to commit a crime.
Entravision Communications Entravision Communications Corporation is a media company based in Santa Monica, California. Entravision primarily caters to the Spanish-speaking Hispanic community and owns television and radio stations and outdoor media, including billboards, in several of the top Hispanic markets.
Entre a Mi Mundo Entre a Mi Mundo was the third studio album release by Tejano singer Selena under EMI Latin, a month after her marriage to guitarist Chris Perez. When this album was released, the label was starting to explore alternatives to spread Selena's talent throughout Latin markets other than Tejano.
Entre Douro e Minho Entre Douro e Minho is a historical province of Portugal which encompassed the country's northern Atlantic seaboard between the Douro and Minho rivers. Contemporaries often referred to the province as simply "Minho".
Entre RĂos Province Entre RĂos is a province of Argentina, located in the Mesopotamia region, in the northeast of the country. It borders the provinces of Buenos Aires (south), Corrientes (north) and Santa Fe (west), and Uruguay in the east.
Entrelac Entrelac is a knitting technique used to create a textured diamond pattern. While the end result resembles basket-woven strips of knitted fabric, the actual material comprises interconnected squares on two different orientations.
Entremés Entremés, is a short and comic theatrical performance of one act, usually played during the interlude of a performance of a long dramatic work, in the 16th and 17th centuries in Spain. Later it became the sainete.
Entrenched river An entrenched river is a river that is confined to a canyon or gorge, usually with a relatively narrow width and little or no flood plain, and often with meanders worn into the landscape. Such rivers form when an area is elevated rapidly or for some other reason the base level of erosion is rapidly lowered, so that the river begins downcutting into its channel faster than it can change course (which rivers normally do on a constant basis).
Entrenching tool Commonly referred to as an "E-tool", it is often a collapsible shovel used by military forces for digging of latrines, foxholes, fighting positions, etc. Survivalists, campers, hikers, and other outdoors groups have found it to be indispensable in field use.
Entrenchment clause An entrenchment clause of a constitution is a provision which makes certain amendments either more difficult than others or impossible. It may require some form of supermajority, a referendum or the consent of some other party if it is allowed at all.
EntrepĂ´t An entrepĂ´t (French, literally warehouse) is a trading centre, or simply a warehouse, where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying import duties, often at a profit. This profit is possible because of trade conditions, for example, the reluctance of ships to travel the entire length of a long trading route, and selling to the entrepĂ´t instead.
Entrepreneur An entrepreneur (a loanword from French introduced and first defined by an Irish economist named Richard Cantillon) is a person who undertakes and operates a new enterprise or venture and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks. In the context of the creation of for-profit enterprises, entrepreneur is often synonymous with founder.
Entrepreneurial Economics If entrepreneurship remains as important to the economy as ever, then the continuing failure of mainstream economics to adequately account for entrepreneurship indicates that fundamental principles require re-evaluation. Entrepreneurial Economics is the study of the entrepreneur and entrepreneurship within the economy.
Entrepreneurial network In business, entrepreneurial networks are social organizations offering different types of resources to start or improve entrepreneurial projects. Having adequate human resources is a key factor for entrepreneurial achievements.
Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the practice of starting new organizations, particularly new businesses generally in response to identified opportunities. Entrepreneurship is often a difficult undertaking, as a majority of new businesses fail.
Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI or EDII) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promote entrepreneurship that is based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It was founded in 1983 with the sponsorship of the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI), the Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI), the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) and State Bank of India (SBI).
Entrepreneurship education Entrepreneurship education seeks to provide students with the knowledge, skills and motivation do enact entrepreneurial possibilities, often in a variety of settings. Variations of entrepreneurship education are offered at all levels of schooling from K-12 schools through graduate university programs.
Entrez The Entrez Global Query Cross-Database Search System allows access to databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website. NCBI is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), itself a department of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the United States government.
Entropia Universe Entropia Universe is an online virtual universe designed by Swedish software company MindArk. It has a unique "Real Cash Economy" (RCE), in which Entropia Universe currency (PED - Project Entropia Dollar) can be redeemed back into real world funds through a fixed exchange rate with the US dollar, where 10 PED = $1 USD.
Entropic explosion An entropic explosion is an explosion in which the reactants undergo a large change in volume without releasing a large amount of heat. The chemical decomposition of triacetone triperoxide or TATP is an example of an entropic explosion.
Entropic force In physics, an entropic force acting in a system is a macroscopic force whose properties are primarily determined not by the character of a particular underlying microscopic force (such as electromagnetism), but by the whole system's statistical tendency to increase its entropy.
Entropic security Entropic security is a security definition for encryption for specific message spaces. Standard security definitions such as semantic security permit the adversary a great deal of knowledge about the messages being encrypted--- for example, the adversary is often allowed to specify a two-element message space.
Entropy (arrow of time) Entropy is the only quantity in the physical sciences that "picks" a particular direction for time, sometimes called an arrow of time. As we go "forward" in time, the Second Law of Thermodynamics tells us that the entropy of an isolated system can only increase or remain the same; it cannot decrease.
Entropy (board game) There are at least two board games known under the name Entropy, one invented by Eric Solomon and published in 1977, the other by Augustine Carreno in 1994. Both are two-player abstract strategic games played on square boards.
Entropy (classical thermodynamics) In thermodynamics, entropy is a measure of how close a thermodynamic system is to equilibrium. A thermodynamic system is any physical object or region of space that can be described by its thermodynamic quantities such as temperature, pressure, volume and density.
Entropy (comics) Entropy is a Cosmic Entity in the Marvel Comics Universe who possesses Nigh-Omnipotence. A representation of Eternity formed at the beginning of time, whose purpose is to undo, so the cycle of creation and destruction will forever continue.
Entropy (energy dispersal) The thermodynamic concept of entropy can be described qualitatively as a measure of energy dispersal at a specific temperature. Changes in entropy can be quantitatively related to the distribution or the spreading out of the energy of a thermodynamic system divided by its temperature.
Entropy (film) Entropy is a movie directed by Phil Joanou, starring Stephen Dorff and featuring Bono of the Irish rock band U2. The film is largely autobiographical, covering his early film career, his relationships (including a very short-lived marriage) and his pet cat.
Entropy (statistical thermodynamics) In thermodynamics, statistical entropy is the modeling of the energetic function entropy using probability theory. The statistical entropy perspective was introduced in 1870 with the work of the Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann.
Entropy encoding An entropy encoding is a coding scheme that assigns codes to symbols so as to match code lengths with the probabilities of the symbols. Typically, entropy encoders are used to compress data by replacing symbols represented by equal-length codes with symbols represented by codes where the length of each codeword is proportional to the negative logarithm of the probability.
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