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Adjective
/ˈambēənt/,
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Of or relating to the immediate surroundings of something,
  1. Of or relating to the immediate surroundings of something
    • - the liquid is stored at below ambient temperature
Noun
  1. A style of instrumental music with electronic textures and no persistent beat, used to create or enhance a mood or atmosphere


  1. completely enveloping; "the ambient air"; "ambient sound"; "the ambient temperature"
  2. (ambience) atmosphere: a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement"
  3. Ambient is an album by the artist Moby. It was released on August 17, 1993 and received mediocre reviews; Moby did not gain any real acclaim for his 1990s electronic Music albums until he released Everything Is Wrong in 1995.
  4. In computer science, the ambient calculus is a process calculus devised by Luca Cardelli and Andrew D. Gordon in 1998, and used to describe and theorise about concurrent systems that include mobility. Here mobility means both computation carried out on mobile devices (i.e. ...
  5. Ambient is a MUI based desktop environment for MorphOS. Its development was started in 2001 by David Gerber. Its main goals were that it should be simple and fast. Ambient remotely resembles Workbench and Directory Opus Magellan trying to mix the best of both worlds.
  6. Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual"Prendergast, M. The Ambient Century. 2001. Bloomsbury, USA or "unobtrusive" quality.
  7. Ambient is the dystopian debut novel of cyberpunk writer Jack Womack, the first in his Dryco series. Published in 1987, it was translated into Slovak by Michal Hvorecký, and has a significant cult following. ...
  8. (Ambience (album)) Ambience is The Lambrettas second album. Unlike their first album Beat Boys In The Jet Age it was never a success. The band had tried to move on from their Mod sound but failed to attract a wider audience. The album includes singles "Good Times" and "Decent Town".
  9. Something that surrounds; A type of modern music which incorporates elements of various musical styles, and creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere; The atmosphere; the surrounding air or sky; plural atmospheric components collectively such as air, clouds, water vapour, hail, etc; ...
  10. (ambience) Alternative spelling of ambiance
  11. (Ambience) The acoustic characteristics of a space with regard to reverberation. A room with a lot of reverb is said to be "live"; one without much reverb is "dead."
  12. (ambience) Sounds such as reverberation, noise, and atmosphere that form a background to the main sound. Also called room tone and presence, and atmos in Great Britain.
  13. (ambience) (pronounced "ambee-ints") The aurally perceived impression of an acoustical space, such as the performing hall in which a recording was made.
  14. (ambience) The part of a speaker's sound caused by reverberations from the surrounding environment, such as walls or furniture, instead of directly from the speaker.
  15. (Ambience) Room acoustics or natural reverberation.
  16. Ambience refers to a room’s level of lighting, such as daylight, artificial light, etc. The higher the ambience, the brighter the projector needs to be to produce a viewable image.
  17. (Ambience) In audio / acoustic terminology, this is the reverberant quality of a room.
  18. (Ambience) The acoustical character of a listening or performing space, determined mainly by the timing, level, frequency balance, and directions of sound reflections in it.
  19. (Ambience) The mix of background noise and other reflected sounds that make up a room's acoustic character. More recently, a generic description of new age music.
  20. (ambience) Also called "room tone", ambience is the natural sound occuring in any location. You should always record a minimum of 30 seconds of ambient sound for each camera location. ...
  21. (ambience) Broadly an alternative word for atmosphere. See mood, tone.Specifically the word ambiance relates to the atmosphere or mood of a specific setting or location
  22. (ambience) the background noise or environmental sound.
  23. (ambience) the environment in which an event takes place. It is often recorded afterwards to provide audio that can be faded in prior to and coming out of the event to ease transitions. Also referred to as "ambi"
  24. (ambience) the overall quality of mood, tone, or atmosphere in a film.
  25. Literally = ‘surrounding’, but usually interpreted as ‘room temperature’.