How do you pronounce adiabatic?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˌeɪ.dɪəˈbæt.ɪk/.

adiabatic

/ˌeɪ.dɪəˈbæt.ɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.40 in modern English

Syllables: adi-a-bat-ic
IPA: /ˌeɪ.dɪəˈbæt.ɪk/

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Meaning

adj

Without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation).

adj

Involving the slow change of the Hamiltonian of a system from its initial value to a final value.

noun

An adiabatic curve or graph

Example Sentences

"The line drawn on the indicator diagram in the latter case has been named by Professor Rankine an Adiabatic line, because it is defined by the condition that heat is not allowed to pass through (διαβαίνειν) the vessel which confines the substance."
"Talk of dynamic compression and adiabatic gradients didn't carry as much weight as the certainty of its conscious intent."
"New 2.4 GWh adiabatic compressed air energy storage (CAES) plant now operational in in ^([sic]) Jiangsu province."
"In this section we examine the limiting cases when T is very small (sudden change) and very large (adiabatic change)."

Etymology

19th-century coinage (introduced by W. J. M. Rankine in the 1860s) based on Ancient Greek ἀδιάβατος (adiábatos, “impassable”), used of terrain (rivers, forests) by Xenophon, from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + διά (diá, “through”) + βατός (batós, “passable”), from βαίνω (baínō, “to go”).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: ἀδιάβατος

Inflected Forms

adiabatics (plural)

Derived Forms

adiabat adiabatically adiabaticity antiadiabatic subadiabatic superadiabatic

Phrases

adiabatic cooling adiabatic lapse rate adiabatic wall moist-adiabatic

Frequently Paired Words

diabatic

Antonyms

diabatic nonadiabatic

Rhymes With

democratic automatic static systematic attic bureaucratic erratic thematic aromatic aristocratic fanatic schematic