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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ambient
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
air
▪ Fans are used to draw ambient air over the condenser and air over the evaporator inside.
▪ Firstly, ambient air quality standards or goals need to be specified.
▪ The water in the aquarium will quickly equal the ambient air temperature.
▪ It requires a greater than one-for-one reduction in emissions in order to achieve a net improvement in ambient air quality.
▪ If no pollution control expenditures are made, ambient air pollution concentration will be high and pollution damage costs high.
temperature
▪ Odour emissions are affected by wind direction, temperature inversion, ambient temperatures and humidity.
▪ The ambient temperature in Celsius is roughly equal to the number of cricket chirps in 8 seconds plus 5.
▪ If you space heat then you will have an ambient temperature of 75-80°F and even higher humidity.
▪ Homeothermy or Homoiothermy Temperature regulation in tachymetabolic species in which core temperatures remain roughly steady despite ambient temperature changes.
▪ The ambient temperature for each day of the study was determined from local weekly weather statistics.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Odour emissions are affected by wind direction, temperature inversion, ambient temperatures and humidity.
▪ The 11 sinuously blended songs of ambient texture and acoustic sensitivity are striking and pure, with a confessional intensity.
▪ The weather affects them, the time of day, the ambient noise.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ambient

Ambient \Am"bi*ent\, a. [L. ambiens, p. pr. of ambire to go around; amb- + ire to go.] Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing. ``Ambient air.''
--Milton. ``Ambient clouds.''
--Pope.

Ambient

Ambient \Am"bi*ent\, n. Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient.
--Sir H. Wotton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ambient

1590s, "surrounding, encircling," from Latin ambientem (nominative ambiens) "going round," present participle of ambire "to go around," from amb- "around" (see ambi-) + ire "go" (see ion). The ground sense of "revolving" led to "encircling, lying all around."

Wiktionary
ambient

a. 1 encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping. 2 (context music English) Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric. 3 Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature. 4 (context mathematics English) contain objects or describe a setting that one is interested in. n. 1 Something that surrounds. 2 (context uncountable music English) A type of modern music which incorporates elements of various musical styles, and creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere. 3 (context astrology English) The atmosphere; the surrounding air or sky; atmospheric components collectively such as air, clouds, water vapour, hail, etc.

WordNet
ambient

adj. completely enveloping; "the ambient air"; "ambient sound"; "the ambient temperature"

Wikipedia
Ambient

Ambient or Ambiance may refer to:

Ambient (desktop environment)

Ambient is a MUI-based desktop environment for MorphOS. Its development was started in 2001 by David Gerber. Its main goals were that it should be fully asynchronous, simple and fast. Ambient remotely resembles Workbench and Directory Opus Magellan trying to mix the best of both worlds.

Ambient (album)

Ambient is the second studio album by American electronica musician Moby, released in August 1993 by record label Instinct.

It received a mediocre critical reception. Ambient, unlike most other Moby studio albums, has never been re-released in a special-edition or a remastered issue.

Ambient (disambiguation)
Ambient (novel)

Ambient is the dystopian debut novel of cyberpunk writer Jack Womack, the first in his Dryco series. Published in 1987, it was translated into Slovak by Michal Hvorecký, and has a significant cult following. Actor Bruce Willis optioned the novel, and renewed the option in 1995 (thus enabling Womack to quit his "day job").

Usage examples of "ambient".

Ridley knew it in the ambient before he was entirely awake, and came out of bed in a hurry.

The shadow that was Cloud was pulling ahead of them again, nothing but a grayness in the ambient and a grayness in the softly felling snow.

Danny gathered in the ambient, information coming to him freely and abundantly now that he entered the close vicinity of other horses.

And in that closeness and the quiet of the ambient Danny took the chance.

The ambient was quiet, the horses were snug in their den, the dark-eyed little girl with the lively curiosity was safely in her room.

Tara right beside him, trying to call the lost horses out there, naming their names in the ambient, names not all of which he knew.

Cloud snorted and the other horses acted bothered, but the ambient was otherwise quiet, and Cloud settled to being brushed again, rocking gently to the strong strokes Danny put into it.

He felt keenly the lack of the ambient that would have made him aware what Carlo was thinking.

He kept quiet in the ambient and was aware of Ridley leaving it, the other side of the wall.

But Callie was holding the ambient very quiet, and he gave her all the help he could in that.

Brionne could, and Danny started toward the village gate to know whether the ambient was as threatening there as here.

So he excused himself to his bed and lay there listening to an ambient as new and full of foolishness as could be.

He tried to keep his thoughts out of the ambient and had no luck at all.

Carlo was out cold, in the ambient just barely, in that very faint way you could pick up someone sound asleep, at very close range.

The only encouragement was the lack of specific alarm from the horses, who carried an ambient void of native presence around the village.