English edit

 
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Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈæm.bi.ənt/
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Adjective edit

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.
  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 edit

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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Descendants edit

  • Polish: ambient

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Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin ambientem.

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ambient m or f (masculine and feminine plural ambients)

  1. ambient

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Noun edit

ambient m (plural ambients)

  1. ambience, atmosphere
  2. environment

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ambient (strong nominative masculine singular ambienter, not comparable)

  1. (very rare, widely unintelligible) ambient

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Ladin edit

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ambient m (plural ambienc)

  1. environment

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Verb edit

ambient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of ambiō

Polish edit

 
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Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ambient m inan

  1. (music) ambient (type of modern music that creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere) [+case = ] [+ prep (case) = ]

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adjective

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ambient (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)

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

References edit

  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

Further reading edit

  • ambient in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ambient in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • ambient in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

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Noun edit

ambient m (uncountable)

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

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French ambient.

Noun edit

ambient n (plural ambienturi)

  1. ambiance, atmosphere, environment

Declension edit