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On the way adiabatic processes were defined in Blundell's Concepts in Thermal Physics

In Blundell's Concepts in Thermal Physics, page $117$, the author defines an adiabatic expansion as follows, The word adiathermal means ‘without flow of heat’. A system bounded by adiathermal walls ...
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What is quasi-static process?

What is the formal definition of quasi static process? I am accustomed with it a bit intuitively, i want to know the formal definition of this. At some source I found the definition of somewhat ...
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