isothermallyadv.
/ʌɪsəʊˈθəːməli/ At a constant temperature, without a change in temperature.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > [adverb] > without change in temperature
adiabatically1875
isothermally1886
1886 Proc. Royal Soc. Edinb. 13 79 Steam might be condensed isothermally to supersaturation without condensing.
1897 Daily News 15 June 5/5 The compression [of the air] takes place isothermally.
1922 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics I. 930/1 When a perfect gas expands isothermally PV is constant, and hence its isothermal line on the pressure-volume diagram, for any assigned temperature, is a rectangular hyperbola.
1952 New Biol. 12 75 In a system such as this the simultaneous dismantling and assembly can be described as ‘energy-linked’; and since no heat is lost or gained the changes occur isothermally, that is, at constant temperature.
1967 A. H. Cottrell Introd. Metall. xx. 374 Over the range in which the austenite decomposes isothermally the time of transformation follows a C-curve like that of Fig. 20.2.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
<
adv.1886- pay scot and to pay lot
- pay sergeant
- pay settlement
- pay shed
- pay shoot
- pay size
- pay spine
- pay station
- pay streak
- pay structure
- pay telephone
- pay television
- pay the cain
- pay the death-rent of
- pay the deathrent of
- pay the difference
- pay the forfeit
- pay the mail
- pay the piper
- pay the rent of
- pay through the nose
- pay toilet
- pay too dear for one's whistle
- pay tv
- pay up