ambient en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈæm.bi.ənt/ (UK, US)
- (UK) audio
Etymology
From Latin ambiēns (“going around”), from ambiō (“go around”).
Meanings
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Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.
A cup of warm tea eventually cools to the ambient temperature.
This which yields or fills all space / The ambient air wide interfused
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: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.
1959 February 14, “Letters to the Editor: Diggle Water Troughs”, in Railway Magazine, page 135:Then gazing up, a glorious Pile beheld, / VVhoſe tovv'ring Summit ambient Clouds conceal'd.
1715, [Alexander] Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 9:
- Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.
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Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature.
ambient warehousing
ambient food
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Containing objects or describing a setting that one is interested in.
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).
1996, Moshe Machover, Set Theory, Logic and Their Limitations, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 282:A point in the manifold is classically represented by a vector in the ambient space.
2011, Henry W. Haslach Jr., Maximum Dissipation Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and its Geometric Structure, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 163: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.
2008, Akihiro Kanamori, The Higher Infinite: Large Cardinals in Set Theory from Their Beginnings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 369:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more ambient | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most ambient | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
circumambient · subambient · nonambient · superambient
Translations (34)
mr वातावरण ((music) evoking or creating an atmosphere) · fa محیط (encompassing on all sides) · ka ემბიენტური მუსიკა ((music) evoking or creating an atmosphere) · fi ympäröivä (encompassing on all sides) · ka გარშემორტყმული (encompassing on all sides) · is umhverfis- (encompassing on all sides) · pl atmosferyczny ((music) evoking or creating an atmosphere) · ca ambient (encompassing on all sides) · fa امبینت ((music) evoking or creating an atmosphere) · ru окружа́ющий (encompassing on all sides) · pt ambiente (encompassing on all sides) · el άμπιεντ ((music) evoking or creating an atmosphere) · is allt um kring (encompassing on all sides) · cs okolní (encompassing on all sides) · ka ემბიენტი ((music) evoking or creating an atmosphere) · cmn 氛圍 /氛围 ((music) evoking or creating an atmosphere) · bg заобикалящ (encompassing on all sides) · ms sekitar (encompassing on all sides) · fi ympäristön (encompassing on all sides) · pt ambiente ((music) evoking or creating an atmosphere) · cs obklopující (encompassing on all sides) · bg околен (encompassing on all sides) · fi tunnelmallinen ((music) evoking or creating an atmosphere) · is umlykjandi (encompassing on all sides) · lv apkārt esošs (encompassing on all sides) · mr नी घेरलेले (encompassing on all sides) · fa محیطی (encompassing on all sides) · it ambientale ((music) evoking or creating an atmosphere) · lv ietverošs (encompassing on all sides) · ms sekeliling (encompassing on all sides) · lv ambientā mūzika ((music) evoking or creating an atmosphere) · lv visaptverošs (encompassing on all sides) · pl otaczający (encompassing on all sides) · sv omgivande (encompassing on all sides)