Medical Definition of Adiabatic compression
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Compression (of a gas, plasma, etc.) not accompanied by gain or loss of heat from outside the system. For a plasma in a magnetic field, a compression slow enough that the magnetic moment and other adiabatic invariants of the plasma particles may be taken as constant.
(09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adiabatic Compression
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