adiabatically
adverb
adiabatically is an adverb meaning “In an adiabatic way” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-D-I-A-B-A-T-I-C-A-L-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does adiabatically mean?
adverb
- 1
In an adiabatic way.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce adiabatically?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-adiabatically.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is adiabatically?
Adiabatically appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Adiabatically in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in an adiabatic way:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | adiabaticamente |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does adiabatically come from?
From adiabatic + -ally.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).