The word
"adiabatic" refers to a process where there is no exchange of heat with the surroundings. It means that the system remains isolated, without any heat entering or leaving.
Full definition
Dilution varies a lot depending on what quantity is being diluted, and this can get very complicated when a quantity is not conserved for moist
adiabatic processes.
It's a small effect, much smaller in the atmosphere than the expansion due to the reduction in pressure as the air rises, but the reduction in volume at a given pressure due to condensation is included in accurate computations
of adiabatic lapse rates.
The computers built by commercial firm D - Wave of Burnaby in British Columbia, Canada, have many more qubits — about 500 — but use a method known as
adiabatic quantum computing, which, unlike the traditional method, has not yet been proved to give a quantum power boost.
However, in these expanding
adiabatic systems it appears that electric fields may have a significant effect on the dynamics of the electrons and a very strong electric field trapping the electrons is usually formed at the plasma - wall boundary in laboratory plasmas.
(This is one of the reasons why the possibility of a departure from moist
adiabatic warming in the trend would be so curious, the atmospheric dynamics involved being fast enough that it should not care whether the warming is due to ENSO or slowly evolving forcing.)
At that point, energy exchange with stratospheric air ceases and a process known as
adiabatic descent begins.
D - Wave instead
uses adiabatic quantum computing, in which an array of chilled, superconducting niobium loops — the qubits in this system — very quickly find the lowest point in what can be thought of as an energy «landscape» of hills and valleys.
Many laboratory - based experiments
under adiabatic conditions have also shown a nearly isothermal expansion in magnetic nozzles and the relation with astrophysical plasmas has been discussed.
The experimental results show the decreasing electron temperature along the expansion, following a near
perfect adiabatic expansion of an electron gas when electric fields are removed from the system.
The magnetic field can behave as a flexible wall with no heat transfer, i.e., the
perfectly adiabatic wall.