Ambient Meaning
/ˈæm.bi.ənt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjEncompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.
adjEvoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.
Sentence Examples
My brother listens to a music genre called ambient.
They interpret ambient electronic music.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The low ____ noise from the air conditioner helped me sleep.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The room was filled with soft ____ light from the small candles.
Word Origin & History
From Latin ambiēns (“going around”), from ambiō (“go around”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"This which yields or fills all space / The ambient air wide interfused"
— 1667, 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, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
"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:
"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."
— 1959 February 26, “Letters to the Editor: Diggle Water Troughs”, in Railway Magazine, page 135:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The low ____ noise from the air conditioner helped me sleep.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The room was filled with soft ____ light from the small candles.