ambiance

See also: ambiancé

English

Alternative forms

• ambience

Etymology

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Borrowed from French ambiance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæm.bi.əns/, /ˈɒm.bi.ɒns/
• IPA^(key): /ˈæm.bi.əns/, /ˈɑm.bi.ɑns/

Noun

ambiance (countable and uncountable, plural ambiances)

1. A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.
2. (computer graphics, 3D models) A secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading.

Related terms

• ambient

Translations

particular mood or atmosphere of an environment

• Bulgarian: атмосфера (bg) (atmosfera)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氣氛／气氛 (zh), 气氛 (zh) (qìfēn), 氛围 (zh)

• Esperanto: etoso
• Finnish: ilmapiiri (fi), tunnelma (fi)
• German: Ambiente (de) n
• Greek: ατμόσφαιρα (el) f (atmósfaira)
• Hebrew: אווירה (he) f (avira)
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• Norwegian: stemning c
• Polish: atmosfera (pl) f
• Portuguese: atmosfera (pt) f, ambiência f
• Russian: обстано́вка (ru) f (obstanóvka), атмосфе́ра (ru) f (atmosféra)
• Serbo-Croatian: ambijent (sh) m
• Spanish: ambiente (es) f, atmósfera (es) f
• Swedish: atmosfär (sv) c, stämning (sv) c, känsla (sv) c

secondary color of a polygon in 3D graphics

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Translations to be checked

• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} apkārtne
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• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} ambijent (sh) m

See also

• atmosphere
• mood

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French

Etymology

ambiant +‎ -ance

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃s/

• Audio (France, Paris):

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• Homophones: ambiancent, ambiances
• Hyphenation: am‧biance
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

ambiance f (plural ambiances)

1. ambiance, atmosphere

Verb

ambiance

1. first-person singular present indicative of ambiancer
2. third-person singular present indicative of ambiancer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ambiancer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ambiancer
5. second-person singular imperative of ambiancer

Further reading

• “ambiance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.