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title: "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 ==