(cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system.
(cybernetics)Logarithm of the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
(linguistics) A term used for a specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is a dialect, accent, register, etc. and to its prestige level.
“He must have been especially sensitive to the ways in which one gets, despite the variousness of one's output, pigeonholed.”
“But for all the variousness and inventiveness with which Andrews treats the idea in his early work, one problem arises, acutely explored by P. Inman.”
“But these groups were gathered with no systematic purpose and no suggestion other than the variousness of the life portrayed.”