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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A thermodynamic free entropy is an entropic thermodynamic potential analogous to the free energy. Also known as a Massieu, Planck, or Massieu-Planck potentials (or functions), or (rarely) free information. In statistical mechanics, free entropies frequently appear as the logarithm of a partition function. In mathematics, free entropy is the generalization of entropy defined in free probability.