Usually means: Order derived from reducing entropy.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (negentropy)

noun:  (thermodynamics) The difference between the entropy of a system and the maximum possible entropy of the same system.
noun:  (information theory) The difference between the entropy of a probability distribution and the maximum possible entropy of the same probability distribution.

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