Adiabatic is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 130 anagrams from letters in adiabatic (aaabcdiit).
1875-80; Greek adiábat(os) incapable of being crossed (a- a-6 + dia- dia- + ba- (stem of baínein to cross) + -tos verbal adjective suf
The adiabatic lines, representing a fall of temperature of 1° Fahrenheit per 183 feet of ascent, serve for comparison.
But let us assume that we have a compressor which shows an adiabatic pressure line.
At the same time the utmost pains are taken to maintain the adiabatic condition of the metal walls.
adiabatic, ad-i-a-bat′ik, adj. (physics) neither losing nor gaining heat: impassable to heat.
Above that height the air suddenly becomes warmer, and then cools with ascent at a rate somewhat less than the adiabatic rate.
Higher than this, the temperature decreases at a fairly uniform rate, but more slowly than the adiabatic rate.
The temperature falls at the adiabatic rate in unsaturated air till the base of the cumulus cloud is reached.
The straight dotted lines show the adiabatic decrease of temperature for ascending dry air.
This is the line of no transmission of heat, therefore known as adiabatic.
This is the ratio of the adiabatic elasticity of air to the isothermal elasticity.
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