Usually means: No heat exchange with surroundings.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. adiabatic: Merriam-Webster
  2. adiabatic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adiabatic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adiabatic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adiabatic: Vocabulary.com
  6. adiabatic: Wordnik
  7. adiabatic: Wiktionary
  8. adiabatic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. adiabatic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. adiabatic: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. adiabatic: Dictionary.com
  12. Adiabatic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Adiabatic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. adiabatic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. adiabatic: Rhymezone
  16. Adiabatic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. adiabatic: FreeDictionary.org
  18. adiabatic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. adiabatic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. adiabatic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. adiabatic: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Adiabatic: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Adiabatic (disambiguation): Encyclopedia
  3. adiabatic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Adiabatic: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adiabatic: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Adiabatic: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
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  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  7. ADIABATIC: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (adiabatic)

adjective:  (physics, thermodynamics, of a process) Without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation).
adjective:  (physics, quantum mechanics, of a process) That involves the slow change of the Hamiltonian of a system from its initial value to a final value.
noun:  An adiabatic curve or graph

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