Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or being a reversible thermodynamic process that occurs without gain or loss of heat and without a change in entropy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Without transference: used in thermodynamics of a change in volume, whether by expansion or contraction, unaccompanied by a gain or loss of heat.
- n. An adiabatic line.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Physics) Not giving out or receiving heat.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. occurring without loss or gain of heat
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἀδιάβατος (adiabatos, "impassible"), from ἀ (a, "not") + διά (dia, "through") + βατός (batos, "passable"), from βαίνειν (bainein, "to go"). See βαίνω (bainō). (Wiktionary)
- From Greek adiabatos, impassable : a-, not; see a-1 + diabatos, passable (dia-, dia- + batos, passable from bainein, to go. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“… there need be no entropy generated in adiabatic processes – which occur frequently in living systems …".”
“Air must be compressed, then cooled, and then allow to expand, this is called adiabatic cooling.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Cv, also sometimes called the adiabatic index or the heat capacity ratio or the isentropic expansion factor”
“The result is what meteorologists call adiabatic cooling - the temperature plunges to below - 30C, causing the water vapour in the gas to condense.”
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“The adiabatic combustion temperature (also known as the adiabatic flame temperature) increases for higher heating values and inlet air and fuel temperatures and for stoichiometric air ratios approaching one.”
“New paradigms of quantum algorithms have appeared, such as adiabatic algorithms, measurement-based algorithms, and topological-quantum-field-theory-based algorithms, as well as new physical models for realizing a large scale quantum computer with cold ion traps, quantum optics (using photons and optical cavity), condensed matter systems and solid state physics (meanwhile, the first NMR model had turned out to be a dead-end with respect to scaling; see DiVicenzo 2000).”
“This is called the adiabatic lapse rate, and it’s a simple consequence of Boyle’s Law.”
“I'll refine response that a wee bit. "adiabatic" means without change in * heat* energy.”
“Gavin corrected him: Since 'adiabatic' means without input of energy it seems a little unlikely that it is a source of Venusian heating. - gavin”
“Giauque, who extended the temperature range experimentally accessible by introducing the method of adiabatic demagnetization in 1933.”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
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