List of adiabatic concepts

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