Definition of Adiabatic

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Adiabatic

The term 'Adiabatic' as it applies to the area of the weather can be defined as ' Changes in temperature caused by the expansion (cooling) or compression (warming) of a body of air as it rises or descends in the atmosphere, with no exchange of heat with the surrounding air'.

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