How to Use adiabatic in a Sentence
adiabatic
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To make matters worse, air sinks in such heat domes and can warm even more due to something called adiabatic compression.
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Marshall Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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The researchers designed an adiabatic optical transition inside the lantern.
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Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Mar. 2026
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This type of change is known as an adiabatic change, where adiabatic expansion leads to rapid cooling and adiabatic contraction leads to rapid heating, where the latter is how pistons work.
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Big Think,
9 Apr. 2026
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Those fluctuations should be 100% adiabatic (of constant entropy) and not isocurvature (of the same spatial curvature) in nature.
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Big Think,
22 Oct. 2025
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The fluctuations were determined to be adiabatic and not isocurvature, further validating inflation.
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Big Think,
14 Oct. 2025
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Another based on adiabatic quantum computing involves the D-Wave quantum annealing machines being tested by Google, NASA and Lockheed Martin.
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Jeremy Hsu,
IEEE Spectrum,
20 Oct. 2016
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This alloy achieves cooling via adiabatic demagnetization refrigeration (ADR).
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Etiido Uko
march 23,
New Atlas,
23 Mar. 2026
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Now, adiabatic demagnetization refrigeration technology already exists.
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Etiido Uko
march 23,
New Atlas,
23 Mar. 2026
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