adiabatic

1. 1.

   occurring without loss or gain of heat

   “adiabatic expansion”

   Antonymsdiabatic

   physics

Questions about adiabatic

What does adiabatic mean?

adiabatic means "occurring without loss or gain of heat".

How many syllables are in adiabatic?

adiabatic has 5 syllables: a-di-a-ba-tic. The stress falls on "ba".

What is the opposite of adiabatic?

The recorded antonyms are diabatic.

Is adiabatic a common word?

adiabatic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.