adiabatic engine

adiabatic engine

[¦ad·ē·ə¦bad·ik ′en·jən]
(mechanical engineering)
A heat engine or thermodynamic system in which there is no gain or loss of heat.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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An adiabatic engine, by definition, is an engine in which no heat is added or subtracted during a thermodynamic cycle.
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