adiabatic
IPA: ˈɑdiʌbˈætɪk
noun
- An adiabatic curve or graph
adjective
- (physics, thermodynamics, of a process) That occurs without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation).
- (physics, quantum mechanics, of a process) That involves the slow change of the Hamiltonian of a system from its initial value to a final value.
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Examples of "adiabatic" in Sentences
- Adiabatic heating and cooling==.
- Non adiabatic chemical dynamics.
- So entropy is an adiabatic invariant.
- This is referred to as an adiabatic process.
- The definition of adiabatic is NO heat transfer.
- Look up adiabatic process and isothermal process.
- This is referred to as the adiabatic approximation.
- Adiabatic is a description of a process, not a state.
- Thus an irreversible isentropic process is not adiabatic.
- An Adiabatic calorimeter is a calorimeter used to examine a runaway reaction.
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