Adiabatic vs Terms - What's the difference?
adiabatic | terms |
(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,
As an adjective adiabatic
is adiabatic.As a noun terms is
.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).