adiabatic
adiabatic · adiabatics
An adiabatic curve or graphAn adiabatic curve or graph
/ˌeɪ.dɪəˈbæt.ɪk/
Meaning
1 sensesAn adiabatic curve or graph
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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