Adiabatic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. (of a thermodynamic process) Occurring without gain or loss of heat.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not giving out or receiving heat.
  • The 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. occurring without loss or gain of heat
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