ambient

/ˈæm.bi.ənt/

adj 4noun 3

Collocations

ADJ.

all, electronic, flabby, freezing, giant, open, straight, wide

The freezing ambient temperature made it impossible to work outside for more than an hour.

VERB + AMBIENT

air, called, cools, games, interpret, like, listen, listening

The ambient air in the coffee shop felt warm and inviting on that cold winter morning.

AMBIENT + NOUN

generator, music, night, noise, temperature

The ambient noise from the traffic made it hard to concentrate on my work.

PREP.

around, into, since

The soft ambient music around us made the restaurant feel incredibly relaxing and peaceful.

ADV.

mostly

The restaurant was mostly ambient lighting, which created a romantic atmosphere.

Definitions

adj

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

Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.

Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature.

ambient food

ambient warehousing

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).

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.

noun

Something that surrounds; encompassing material, substance or shape.

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.

The atmosphere; the surrounding air or sky; atmospheric components collectively such as air, clouds, water vapour, hail, etc.

It might be also, that attracted by that great void Vacuum ... all the ambients would be rarified, and particularly, the air.

A type of modern music that creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere.

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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A cup of warm tea eventually cools to the ambient temperature.

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This which yields or fills all space / The ambient air wide interfused

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Then gazing up, a glorious Pile beheld, / VVhoſe tovv'ring Summit ambient Clouds conceal'd.

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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.

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It might be also, that attracted by that great void Vacuum ... all the ambients would be rarified, and particularly, the air.

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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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