diabatic

From Ancient Greek διαβαίνω (diabaínō, “to pass through”). Doublet of diabetic. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Back-formed from adiabatic, or coined simultaneously?”)

• Rhymes: -ætɪk

diabatic (not comparable)

1. (physics, thermodynamics, of a process) Involving the gain or loss of heat (and thus a change in entropy).

• adiabatic
• counterdiabatic

• diabetic