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ambient

/ˈæm.bi.ənt/

ambient adjective: encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.

Adjective

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.
    • This which yields or fills all space / The ambient air wide interfused1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker...
  2. Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.
  3. Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature.
    • ambient food
    • ambient warehousing
  4. 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).1996, Moshe Machover, Set Theory, Logic and Their Limitations, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 282
    • 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.2008, Akihiro Kanamori, The Higher Infinite: Large Cardinals in Set Theory from Their Beginnings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 369

Noun

ambient (countable and uncountable, plural ambients)

  1. 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.1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia
  2. 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.1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)
  3. (uncountable) 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.1996, SPIN, volume 12, number 3, page 116

ambient meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

ambient in Hindi

परिवेशीय

ambient in Tamil

சுற்றுபுற, வெளிநிலை, சூழ்ந்த, சூழ்ந்திருக்கிற, சூழ்நிலை

ambient in Marathi

encompassing on all sides
नी घेरलेले nī gherlele
(music) evoking or creating an atmosphere
वातावरण vātāvraṇ

ambient in Urdu

اطراف کے مطابق, کمرے کا درجہ حرارت, محصور
More languagesFewer languages
ambient in Kannada
ಸುತ್ತುವರಿದ
ambient in Malay
sekitar, sekeliling
ambient in Persian
محیط, محیطی, امبینت

Examples of ambient in a sentence

  • Then gazing up, a glorious Pile beheld, / VVhoſe tovv'ring Summit ambient Clouds conceal'd.1715, [Alexander] Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 9:
  • A point in the manifold is classically represented by a vector in the ambient space.2011, Henry W. Haslach Jr., Maximum Dissipation Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and its Geometric Structure, Springer Science & Business...

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Synonyms of ambient

Forms of ambient

Adjective
comparativemore ambient
superlativemost ambient
Noun
pluralambients

Origin of ambient

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

Words formed from ambient

Phrases with ambient

Questions about ambient

What does ambient mean?
Ambient means encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.
What is ambient in Hindi?
Ambient in Hindi is परिवेशीय. See Ambient meaning in Hindi.
How do you use ambient in a sentence?
Then gazing up, a glorious Pile beheld, / VVhoſe tovv'ring Summit ambient Clouds conceal'd.
What part of speech is ambient?
Ambient can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce ambient?
Ambient is pronounced /ˈæm.bi.ənt/ (UK).

Words near ambient in the dictionary

  1. Ambien
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  3. ambience
  4. ambiences
  5. Ambiens
  6. ambient
  7. ambient device
  8. ambient devices
  9. ambient findability
  10. ambient food
  11. ambient foods

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ambient (page history and authors); ambient (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ambient (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ambient (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ambient (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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