# min-entropy

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The smallest of the Rényi family of entropies, corresponding to the most conservative way of measuring the unpredictability of a set of outcomes, as the negative logarithm of the probability of the most likely outcome.

## Etymology
From minimum entropy.

## Source
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