ADIABATIC PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adiabatic process mean? 

• ADIABATIC PROCESS (noun)
  The noun ADIABATIC PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. (thermodynamics) any process that occurs without gain or loss of heat

  Familiarity information: ADIABATIC PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADIABATIC PROCESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(thermodynamics) any process that occurs without gain or loss of heat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("adiabatic process" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Domain category:

thermodynamics (the branch of physics concerned with the conversion of different forms of energy)