A process conducted infinitely slowly is said to be quasistatic.

In a non-dissipative medium (which see), or an ideal viscous fluid, a quasistatic process is reversible - that is no net entropy is created. The "reason" for this is that the process, being infinitely slow, must be being driven along by an infinitesimal potential difference, i.e. the system is in mechanical equilibrium.

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