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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Isodiabatic \I`so*di`a*bat"ic\, a. [Iso- + Gr. ? to pass
through.] (Physics)
Pertaining to the reception or the giving out of equal
quantities of heat by a substance. --Rankine.
[1913 Webster]
{Isodiabatic lines} or {Isodiabatic curves}, a pair of lines
or curves exhibiting, on a diagram of energy, the law of
variation of the pressure and density of a fluid, the one
during the lowering, and the other during the raising, of
its temperature, when the quantity of heat given out by
the fluid during any given stage of the one process is
equal to the quantity received during the corresponding
stage of the other. Such lines are said to be isodiabatic
with respect to each other. Compare {Adiabatic}.
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