Adiabatic vs Insulate - What's the difference?
adiabatic | insulate |
(physics, thermodynamics, of a process) That occurs without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation).
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 737:
(physics, quantum mechanics, of a process) That involves the slow change of the Hamiltonian of a system from its initial value to a final value.
* 1961 , Albert Messiah, Quantum Mechanics , Volume II,
To separate, detach, or isolate.
To separate a body or material from others, e.g. by non-conductors to prevent the transfer of electricity, heat, etc.
As an adjective adiabatic
is that occurs without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation).As a verb insulate is
to separate, detach, or isolate.adiabatic
English
Adjective
(-)- Talk of dynamic compression and adiabatic gradients didn't carry as much weight as the certainty of its conscious intent.
page 740,
- In this section we examine the limiting cases when T is very small (sudden change) and very large (adiabatic change).
Antonyms
* (thermodynamics) diabatic * (quantum mechanics) non-adiabaticDerived terms
* adiabat * adiabatically * subadiabatic * superadiabaticExternal links
* (wikipedia "adiabatic")insulate
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Verb
- Ceramic can be used to insulate power lines.