adiabatically

Variant of adiabatic

adiabatic definition

adia·batic (ad′ē ə bat′ik, ad′ī ə-)

adjective

Physics of a process that occurs without loss or gain of heat

Etymology: < Gr adiabatos, not to be passed < a-, not + dia, through + bainein, to go: see come

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