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information_engine
information engine
English
Noun
information engine (plural information engines)
- (thermodynamics) a theoretical engine that converts information into energy for use in work, decreasing heat entropy in the process
- (data processing) a data processor
See also
(thermodynamics):
- heat engine
- Entropy in thermodynamics and information theory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Maxwell's demon
- Szilard's engine
- Mandal-Jarzynski model