Adiabatic vs. Polytropic

Adiabaticadjective

That occurs without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation).

Adiabaticadjective

That involves the slow change of the Hamiltonian of a system from its initial value to a final value.

Adiabaticnoun

An adiabatic curve or graph

Adiabaticadjective

Not giving out or receiving heat.

Adiabaticadjective

occurring without loss or gain of heat;

Polytropicadjective

(physics) of any change in the thermodynamic properties of a gas in which its specific heat remains constant

Polytropicadjective

(maths) many-valued