Meaning

Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping..

Definitions by Sense

1. Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.
2. (music) Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.
3. Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature.
4. (mathematics) Containing objects or describing a setting that one is interested in.
5. Something that surrounds; encompassing material, substance or shape.
6. (astrology) The atmosphere; the surrounding air or sky; atmospheric components collectively such as air, clouds, water vapour, hail, etc.
7. (uncountable, music) A type of modern music that creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere.

Example Sentences

A cup of warm tea eventually cools to the ambient temperature.

This which yields or fills all space / The ambient air wide interfused

Then gazing up, a glorious Pile beheld, / VVhoſe tovv'ring Summit ambient Clouds conceal'd.

Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of the tunnel must be a boon to harassed engine drivers whose thirsty steeds run short of water up the gruelling 1 in 125 seven-mile climb from Stalybridge.

ambient food

ambient warehousing

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).

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.

Word Forms

• more ambient
• most ambient
• ambients

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When Should You Use Ambient?

Use ambient when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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