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ambient

English

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Etymology

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From Latin ambiēns (“going around”), from ambiō (“go around”).

Pronunciation

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  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈæm.bi.ənt/
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ambient (comparative more ambient, superlative most ambient)

  1. Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.
    A cup of warm tea eventually cools to the ambient temperature.
    • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
      This which yields or fills all space / The ambient air wide interfused
    • 1715, [Alexander] Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 9:
      Then gazing up, a glorious Pile beheld, / VVhoſe tovv'ring Summit ambient Clouds conceal'd.
    • 1959 February, “Letters to the Editor: Diggle Water Troughs”, in Railway Magazine, page 135:
      Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of the tunnel must be a boon to harassed engine drivers whose thirsty steeds run short of water up the gruelling 1 in 125 seven-mile climb from Stalybridge.
  2. (music) Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.
  3. Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature.
    ambient food
    ambient warehousing
  4. (mathematics) Containing objects or describing a setting that one is interested in.
    • 1996, Moshe Machover, Set Theory, Logic and Their Limitations, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 282:
      These, then, are characterizations of the system of natural numbers within an ambient set theory. And they seem to work, in the sense that in a sufficiently strong set theory it can be shown that Peano's axioms have (up to isomorphism) a unique model (cf. Rem. 6.1.8).
    • 2008, Akihiro Kanamori, The Higher Infinite: Large Cardinals in Set Theory from Their Beginnings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 369:
      As much of the work in determinacy must proceed without AC, ZF serves as the ambient theory for this section, and uses of AC will be explicitly noted, reversing the usual procedure.
    • 2011, Henry W. Haslach Jr., Maximum Dissipation Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and its Geometric Structure, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 163:
      A point in the manifold is classically represented by a vector in the ambient space.

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Noun

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ambient (countable and uncountable, plural ambients)

  1. Something that surrounds; encompassing material, substance or shape.
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
      Much after this same manner, when the Air is exceeding cold through which it passes; do we find the drops of Rain, falling from the Clouds, congealed into round Hail-stones by the freezing Ambient.
  2. (astrology) The atmosphere; the surrounding air or sky; atmospheric components collectively such as air, clouds, water vapour, hail, etc.
    • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
      It might be also, that attracted by that great void Vacuum ... all the ambients would be rarified, and particularly, the air.
  3. (uncountable, music) A type of modern music that creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere.
    • 1996, SPIN, volume 12, number 3, page 116:
      Ambient can be flabby synth mulch that needs to access cyberism and external philosophies to convince you you're not being scammed.

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  • → Polish: ambient

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Catalan

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Latin ambientem.

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    ambient m or f (masculine and feminine plural ambients)

    1. ambient

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    Noun

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    ambient m (plural ambients)

    1. ambience, atmosphere
    2. environment

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    German

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    ambient (strong nominative masculine singular ambienter, not comparable)

    1. (very rare, widely unintelligible) ambient

    Declension

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    Positive forms of ambient (uncomparable)
    number & gender singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter
    predicative er ist ambient sie ist ambient es ist ambient sie sind ambient
    strong declension
    (without article)     		nominative ambienter ambiente ambientes ambiente
    genitive ambienten ambienter ambienten ambienter
    dative ambientem ambienter ambientem ambienten
    accusative ambienten ambiente ambientes ambiente
    weak declension
    (with definite article)     		nominative der ambiente die ambiente das ambiente die ambienten
    genitive des ambienten der ambienten des ambienten der ambienten
    dative dem ambienten der ambienten dem ambienten den ambienten
    accusative den ambienten die ambiente das ambiente die ambienten
    mixed declension
    (with indefinite article)     		nominative ein ambienter eine ambiente ein ambientes (keine) ambienten
    genitive eines ambienten einer ambienten eines ambienten (keiner) ambienten
    dative einem ambienten einer ambienten einem ambienten (keinen) ambienten
    accusative einen ambienten eine ambiente ein ambientes (keine) ambienten

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    ambient m (plural ambienc)

    1. environment

    Latin

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    ambient

    1. third-person plural future active indicative of ambiō

    Polish

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    Etymology

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      Borrowed from English ambient.[1] First attested in 1996.[2]

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      ambient m inan

      1. (music) ambient (type of modern music that creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere)

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      Declension of ambient
      singular
      nominative ambient
      genitive ambientu
      dative ambientowi
      accusative ambient
      instrumental ambientem
      locative ambiencie
      vocative ambiencie

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      ambient (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)

      1. (relational, music) ambient (of or pertaining to the genre)
        Synonym: ambientowy

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      1. ^ Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021), “ambient”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
      2. ^ Pęzik, Piotr; Przepiórkowski, A.; Bańko, M.; Górski, R.; Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012), Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine]‎[1], Wydawnictwo PWN

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      • “ambient”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
      • “ambient”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish)
      • ambient in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

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      Noun

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      ambient m (uncountable)

      1. (music) ambient (genre of electronic music with a slow, atmospheric tone)

      Romanian

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      Etymology

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      Borrowed from French ambient.

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      ambient n (plural ambienturi)

      1. ambiance, atmosphere, environment

      Declension

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      singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative-accusative ambient ambientul ambienturi ambienturile
      genitive-dative ambient ambientului ambienturi ambienturilor
      vocative ambientule ambienturilor
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