plural of adiabat

Any interface through which there is no transfer of heat or entropy

(physics) The curve on a graph of pressure and temperature which gives the adiabatic heating or cooling of a gas.

plural of adiabaticity

(sciences) In an adiabatic way.

(physics, chemistry) The condition of being adiabatic; A measure of the extent to which a process is adiabatic.

(physics, thermodynamics, of a process) That occurs without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation).

An adiabatic curve or graph

(meteorology) The rate of decrease of temperature with height of a parcel of dry air lifted upward through the atmosphere with no addition or deletion of heat.

Alternative form of adiabatic