Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being a reversible thermodynamic process that occurs without gain or loss of heat and without a change in entropy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without transference: used in thermodynamics of a change in volume, whether by expansion or contraction, unaccompanied by a gain or loss of heat.
- noun An adiabatic line.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physics) Not giving out or receiving heat.
- adjective a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat.
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- adjective physics (of a
thermodynamic process )Occurring withoutgain orloss ofheat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective occurring without loss or gain of heat
Etymologies
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Examples
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"… there need be no entropy generated in adiabatic processes – which occur frequently in living systems …".
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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... 2009
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Cv, also sometimes called the adiabatic index or the heat capacity ratio or the isentropic expansion factor
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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The result is what meteorologists call adiabatic cooling - the temperature plunges to below - 30C, causing the water vapour in the gas to condense.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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Cv, also sometimes called the adiabatic index or the heat capacity ratio or the isentropic expansion factor
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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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.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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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).
Quantum Computing Hagar, Amit 2007
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This is called the adiabatic lapse rate, and it’s a simple consequence of Boyle’s Law.
Archive 2007-02-01 James Killus 2007
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This is called the adiabatic lapse rate, and it’s a simple consequence of Boyle’s Law.
A Brief Primer on Global Warming James Killus 2007
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I'll refine response that a wee bit. "adiabatic" means without change in * heat* energy.
RealClimate 2010
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