Superambient

Quick meaning: Superambient is an adjective meaning Of a fluid that circulates or is located above.

Meaning

Of a fluid that circulates or is located above.

More Meanings

1. Of physical quantity: superior to the immediate surroundings; exceeding the general level of the environment.

Example Sentences

It mostly consists in singing, interspersed with a little dancing. Nobody pays any attention to either, as the singing is all dispersed and lost in the superambient ether and the dancing is generally poor.

It must be admitted, however, that the samples have been of the best kind, the wet intervals being accompanied by a pleasant warm and yet bracing quality in the air, the streets drying quickly and the succeeding sunshine leaving no doubt as to the clarity of the superambient atmosphere.

They are both bottom dwellers of necessity, although they take occasional excursions into the superambient water, but quickly fall back, from the force of gravity, to the bottom. These excursions into the superambient liquid are effected by the motion of the caudal fin from side to side.

The two cases are really very similar. In both there is equal molecular transfer backwards and forwards across the bounding surface. In the one a transfer from that solution to the semi-permeable medium and back from it into the solution. In the other a transfer from the solution into the superambient vapor and back from it into the solution.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include superaqueous, supernatant, above-water, superspatial, superterrene, circumambient.

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