ambient
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin ambiens (“going around”), from ambiō (“go around”).
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[edit] Adjective
ambient (comparative more ambient, superlative most ambient)
- Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.
- A cup of tea eventually cools to the ambient temperature.
- “Ambient Intelligence” represents an intelligent environment of computing nodes.
- (music) Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.
[edit] Translations
Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping
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(music) Slow and peaceful; atmospheric
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[edit] Noun
ambient (plural ambients)
- Something that surrounds.
- (uncountable, music) A type of modern music which incorporates elements of various musical styles, and creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere.
- 1996, SPIN magazine (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.
- 1996, SPIN magazine (volume 12, number 3, page 116)
- (astrology) The atmosphere; the surrounding air or sky; plural 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.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
[edit] Synonyms
- (music): ambient music, chillout
[edit] Translations
Something that surrounds
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Type of modern music
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[edit] References
- Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989
[edit] References
- ambient in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- ambient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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[edit] Verb
ambient
- third-person plural future active indicative of ambiō
