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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The condition of being adiabatic; a measure of the extent to which a process is adiabatic. countable, physical, uncountable
2. 2
   The condition of occurring without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation). wordnet

Etymology

From adiabatic + -ity.

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