adiabatic
адиабатический
adiabatisch
Without gain or loss of heatWithout gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation).
/ˌeɪ.dɪəˈbæt.ɪk/
Meaning
2 senses(not comparable)Without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation).
adiabatisch
адиабати́ческийadiabatíčeskij
occurring without loss or gain of heat
(not comparable)Involving the slow change of the Hamiltonian of a system from its initial value to a final value.
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Origin
19th-century coinage (introduced by W. J. M. Rankine in the 1860s) based on Ancient Greek19th-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”).
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