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See also: adiabàtic

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἀδιάβατος (adiábatos, “impassible”), from ἀ (a, “not”) + διά (diá, “through”) + βατός (batós, “passable”), from βαίνειν (baínein, “to go”). See βαίνω (baínō).

adiabatic (not comparable)

(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:
  Talk of dynamic compression and adiabatic gradients didn't carry as much weight as the certainty of its conscious intent.
(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.
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occurring without gain or loss of heat

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 #*: Talk of dynamic compression and '''adiabatic''' gradients didn't carry as much weight as the certainty of its conscious intent.
 # {{lb|en|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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VR93vUk8d_8C&pg=PA740&dq=%22adiabatic%22+quantum&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oGpMUb2nGIariAfM_oGICg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22adiabatic%22%20quantum&f=false page 740],
+#* {{quote-text|year=1961|author=Albert Messiah|title=Quantum Mechanics|volume=II|page=740|url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VR93vUk8d_8C&pg=PA740&dq=%22adiabatic%22+quantum&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oGpMUb2nGIariAfM_oGICg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22adiabatic%22%20quantum&f=false|passage=In this section we examine the limiting cases when ''T'' is very small (sudden change) and very large ('''adiabatic''' change).}}
-#*: In this section we examine the limiting cases when ''T'' is very small (sudden change) and very large ('''adiabatic''' change).
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