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English Dictionary: Adiabatic by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adiabatic
adj
  1. occurring without loss or gain of heat; "adiabatic expansion"
    Antonym(s): diabatic
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Adiabatic \Ad`i*a*bat"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] not passable; 'a priv. +
      [?] through + [?] to go.] (Physics)
      Not giving out or receiving heat. -- {Ad`i*a*bat`ic*al*ly},
      adv.
  
      {Adiabatic line} or {curve}, a curve exhibiting the
            variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it
            expands without either receiving or giving out heat.
            --Rankine.
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