Adiabatic vs Null - What's the difference?
adiabatic | null |
(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,
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective adiabatic
is adiabatic.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.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")null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.