"adiabatic" meaning in English

See adiabatic in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˌeɪ.dɪəˈbæt.ɪk/, /ˌæd.ɪəˈbæt.ɪk/, /ˌeɪ.daɪ.əˈbæt.ɪk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-adiabatic.wav
Rhymes: -ætɪk Etymology: 19th-century coinage (introduced by W. J. M. Rankine in the 1860s) based on Ancient Greek ἀδιάβατος (adiábatos, “impassable”), used of terrain (rivers, forests) by Xenophon, from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + διά (diá, “through”) + βατός (batós, “passable”), from βαίνω (baínō, “to go”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|ἀδιάβατος||impassable}} Ancient Greek ἀδιάβατος (adiábatos, “impassable”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} adiabatic (not comparable)
  1. (physics, thermodynamics, of a process) That occurs without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation). Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Physics, Thermodynamics Translations (occurring without gain or loss of heat): adiabatiko (Basque), adiabàtic (Catalan), 絕熱的 (Chinese Mandarin), 绝热的 (juérè de) (Chinese Mandarin), adiabatický (Czech), adiabaattinen (Finnish), adiabatique (French), adiabatisch (German), αδιαβατικός (adiavatikós) (Greek), रुद्धोष्म (ruddhoṣma) (Hindi), aidiabatach (Irish), adiabatico (Italian), адиабаталық (adiabatalyq) (Kazakh), адиабаттық (adiabattyq) (Kazakh), آدیاباتیک (âdiyâbâtik) (Persian), بیدررو (bi-dar-row) (Persian), adiabatyczny (Polish), adiabático [masculine] (Portuguese), adiabatic (Romanian), адиабати́ческий (adiabatíčeskij) (Russian), адија̀батскӣ [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), adijàbatskī [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), adiabático (Spanish), adiabatisk (Swedish), kakaintan (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-adiabatic-en-adj-7GZDDBsB Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics, thermodynamics Disambiguation of 'occurring without gain or loss of heat': 94 6
  2. (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. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Physics, Quantum mechanics
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Derived forms: adiabat, adiabatically, adiabatic cooling, adiabaticity, adiabatic lapse rate, adiabatic wall, antiadiabatic, moist-adiabatic, subadiabatic, superadiabatic Related terms: diabatic

Noun

IPA: /ˌeɪ.dɪəˈbæt.ɪk/, /ˌæd.ɪəˈbæt.ɪk/, /ˌeɪ.daɪ.əˈbæt.ɪk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-adiabatic.wav Forms: adiabatics [plural]
Rhymes: -ætɪk Etymology: 19th-century coinage (introduced by W. J. M. Rankine in the 1860s) based on Ancient Greek ἀδιάβατος (adiábatos, “impassable”), used of terrain (rivers, forests) by Xenophon, from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + διά (diá, “through”) + βατός (batós, “passable”), from βαίνω (baínō, “to go”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|ἀδιάβατος||impassable}} Ancient Greek ἀδιάβατος (adiábatos, “impassable”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} adiabatic (plural adiabatics)
  1. An adiabatic curve or graph
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Inflected forms

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