adiabatic
adjective
adi·a·bat·ic
ˌa-dē-ə-ˈba-tik 
ˌā-ˌdī-ə-
: occurring without loss or gain of heat
adiabatic expansion of a gas
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Additionally, air tends to sink under high-pressure systems and warms through a process called adiabatic compression.
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Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
That process causes something called adiabatic warming, so the winds feel warm or hot.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
However, adiabatic switching does require something to generate the more complex ramping waveforms.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
Stacking them in layers could yield compact and energy-efficient adiabatic circuits, but at the moment such 3D fabrication is still quite costly.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2017
The catch is that, to avoid transferring any heat—to be what physicists call an adiabatic process—the series of logical operations in the computation must usually be carried out infinitely slowly.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2022
The result is adiabatic cooling.
—Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2014
Race to the Bottom 1926: Chemists first describe a method, called adiabatic demagnetization, that uses magnetic fields to cool materials below 1 kelvin.
—Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2019
According to the study, this mixture undergoes an adiabatic expansion—the gases expand causing the temperature to drop.
—Amy Klinkhammer, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2017
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Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
That process causes something called adiabatic warming, so the winds feel warm or hot.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
However, adiabatic switching does require something to generate the more complex ramping waveforms.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
Stacking them in layers could yield compact and energy-efficient adiabatic circuits, but at the moment such 3D fabrication is still quite costly.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2017
The catch is that, to avoid transferring any heat—to be what physicists call an adiabatic process—the series of logical operations in the computation must usually be carried out infinitely slowly.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2022
The result is adiabatic cooling.
—Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2014
Race to the Bottom 1926: Chemists first describe a method, called adiabatic demagnetization, that uses magnetic fields to cool materials below 1 kelvin.
—Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2019
According to the study, this mixture undergoes an adiabatic expansion—the gases expand causing the temperature to drop.
—Amy Klinkhammer, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2017
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“Adiabatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adiabatic. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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adiabatic
adjective
adi·a·bat·ic
ˌad-ē-ə-ˈbat-ik
ˌā-ˌdī-ə-
: occurring without loss or gain of heat
adiabatic expansion of a gas
adiabatically
adverb
-ˈbat-i-k(ə-)lē
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