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adiabatic

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˌeɪ.dɪəˈbæt.ɪk/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aaabcdiitStarts with AEnds with C0 cluesCommon crossword word
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  1. occurring without loss or gain of heat

Word origin

19th-century coinage (introduced by W. J. M. Rankine in the 1860s) based on Ancient Greek ἀδιάβατος (adiábatos, “impassable”), used of terrain (rivers, forests) by Xenophon, from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + διά (diá, “through”) + βατός (batós, “passable”), from βαίνω (baínō, “to go”).

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  • Talk of dynamic compression and adiabatic gradients didn't carry as much weight as the certainty of its conscious intent.
  • New 2.4 GWh adiabatic compressed air energy storage (CAES) plant now operational in in ^([sic]) Jiangsu province.
  • In this section we examine the limiting cases when T is very small (sudden change) and very large (adiabatic change).

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