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Named after Josiah Willard Gibbs.
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Today it means: A generalization of the canonical ensemble to infinite systems, giving the probability of a given system being in a given state (or, equivalently, of a given random variable having a given value). Full definition →
Named after Josiah Willard Gibbs.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.