adiabatic
adjective
Examples of adiabatic in a Sentence
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
The catch is that, to avoid transferring any heat—that is, 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 Universe is born with imperfections that are 100% adiabatic and 0% isocurvature in nature.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 6 July 2021
This occurs due to a phenomenon called adiabatic cooling.
—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2019
In this respect, the approach is more like adiabatic quantum computing and offers prospects for scaling.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2018
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Word History
Greek adiábatos "impassable" (from a- a- entry 2 + diabatós "to be crossed, fordable," verbal adjective of diabaínein "to step across, pass over," from dia- dia- + baínein "to walk, step") + -ic entry 1 — more at come entry 1
1870, in the meaning defined above
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“Adiabatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adiabatic. Accessed 4 Dec. 2023.
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