Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
ADIABATIC
adiabatic
(adjective) occurring without loss or gain of heat; “adiabatic expansion”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
adiabatic (not comparable)
(physics, thermodynamics, of a process) That occurs without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation).
(physics, quantum mechanics, of a process) That involves the slow change of the Hamiltonian of a system from its initial value to a final value.
Antonyms
• (thermodynamics): diabatic
• (quantum mechanics): nonadiabatic
Source: Wiktionary
Ad`i*a*bat"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Physics)
Definition: Not giving out or receiving heat.
– Ad`i*a*bat`ic*al*ly, adv. Adiabatic line or curve, a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. Rankine.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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