List of adiabatic concepts

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Adiabatic (from Gr. ἀ negative + διάβασις passage; transference) refers to any process that occurs without heat transfer. This concept is used in many areas of physics and engineering. Notable examples are listed below.

Automobiles

• Engine braking, a feature of some diesel engines, uses adiabatic expansion to diminish the vehicle's forward momentum.

Meteorology

• Adiabatic lapse rate, the change in air temperature with changing height, resulting from pressure change.

Quantum chemistry

• Adiabatic invariant Born–Oppenheimer approximation

Thermodynamics

• Adiabatic process
• Adiabatic ionization
• Adiabatic index
• Adiabatic accessibility

Quantum mechanics

• Adiabatic theorem
• Adiabatic quantum motor

Electronics

• Adiabatic circuit
• Adiabatic logic

References

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