ambients

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

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