Meaning & use
Diabatic
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Involving the transfer of heat energy, as opposed to a process occurring without such transfer.
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Diabatic heating from the sun drives much of the atmosphere's daily temperature change.
Meteorologists model diabatic cooling near the surface at night.
A note on using this word
Used mainly in meteorology and thermodynamics as the direct opposite of "adiabatic," which describes processes without heat exchange.
Words with an opposite meaning
adiabatic
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