Isodiabatic

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Isodiabatic \I`so*di`a*bat"ic\, a. [Iso- + Gr. ? to pass
     through.] (Physics)
     Pertaining to the reception or the giving out of equal
     quantities of heat by a substance. --Rankine.
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     {Isodiabatic lines} or {Isodiabatic curves}, a pair of lines
        or curves exhibiting, on a diagram of energy, the law of
        variation of the pressure and density of a fluid, the one
        during the lowering, and the other during the raising, of
        its temperature, when the quantity of heat given out by
        the fluid during any given stage of the one process is
        equal to the quantity received during the corresponding
        stage of the other. Such lines are said to be isodiabatic
        with respect to each other. Compare {Adiabatic}.
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