Adiabatic line

a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat.

- Rankine.

See also: Adiabatic

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in periodicals archive

We follow this line up and to the right until it crosses the dry adiabatic line we traced already.

Using the Skew-T log (p): once you untangle yourself from all those squiggly lines, you'll find the footprints of cloud layers, fog, turbulence, and ice

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