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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
Kate Fleetwood

Meaning of "ambient" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AMBIENT

From Latin ambiēns going round, from ambīre, from ambi- + īre to go.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF AMBIENT

ambient  [ˈæmbɪənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AMBIENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ambient can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES AMBIENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ambient in the English dictionary

The first definition of ambient in the dictionary is of or relating to the immediate surroundings. Other definition of ambient is creating a relaxing atmosphere. Ambient is also ambient music.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AMBIENT


Bryant
ˈbraɪənt
circumambient
ˌsɜːkəmˈæmbɪənt
client
ˈklaɪənt
compliant
kəmˈplaɪənt
convenient
kənˈviːnɪənt
defiant
dɪˈfaɪənt
deviant
ˈdiːvɪənt
gelato
ˈvɛərɪənt
giant
ˈdʒaɪənt
gradient
ˈɡreɪdɪənt
ingredient
ɪnˈɡriːdɪənt
invariant
ɪnˈvɛərɪənt
nutrient
ˈnjuːtrɪənt
orient
ˈɔːrɪənt
radiant
ˈreɪdɪənt
recipient
rɪˈsɪpɪənt
reliant
rɪˈlaɪənt
resilient
rɪˈzɪlɪənt
transient
ˈtrænzɪənt
variant
ˈvɛərɪənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AMBIENT

ambiance
ambidentate
ambidexter
ambidexterity
ambidexterous
ambidextrous
ambidextrously
ambidextrousness
ambience
ambient music
ambient noise
ambiguities
ambiguity
ambiguous
ambiguously
ambiguousness
ambilateral
ambimoustrous
ambiophony
ambipolar

WORDS THAT END LIKE AMBIENT

active ingredient
ancient
coefficient
conscient
deficient
efficient
energy-efficient
fuel-efficient
impatient
inconvenient
inefficient
inpatient
insufficient
Lorient
obedient
outpatient
patient
proficient
quotient
sufficient

Synonyms and antonyms of ambient in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «AMBIENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ambient» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of ambient

Translation of «ambient» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AMBIENT

Find out the translation of ambient to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ambient from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ambient» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

环境
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ambiente
570 millions of speakers

English

ambient
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

परिवेश
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المحيطة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

окружающей среды
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ambiente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চারিপার্শ্বিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ambiant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ambient
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Umgebungs-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

周囲の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

주변
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sekitar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

môi trường xung quanh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுற்றுப்புற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सभोवतालचा प्रदेश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ortam
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ambientale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

otoczenia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

навколишнього середовища
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

înconjurător
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περιβάλλοντος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

omringende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

omgivande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ambient
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ambient

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AMBIENT»

The term «ambient» is very widely used and occupies the 10.591 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AMBIENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ambient» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ambient» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ambient

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10 QUOTES WITH «AMBIENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ambient.
1
Richard Blackmore
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
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Kate Fleetwood
I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
3
Grimes
When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.
4
Bill Laswell
If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
5
Theophilus London
I love to hear a cool ambient sound at runway shows. It creates a good energy.
6
Jonathan Nolan
People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.
7
David Rose
Ambient Devices develops a new generation of consumer electronic products.
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David Rose
Ambient Devices is what I call part of the Third Wave of Internet devices.
9
Andy Summers
My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
10
Jeffrey Tate
I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMBIENT»

Discover the use of ambient in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ambient and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ambient
You need to be rich to survive at all.
Jack Womack, 2013
2
Ambient Intelligence
This book addresses various aspects of ambient intelligence, from applications that are imminent since they use essentially existing technologies, to ambitious ideas whose realization is still far away, due to major unsolved technical ...
Werner Weber, Jan Rabaey, Emile H.L. Aarts, 2005
3
Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space
Simultaneous. "An unusually rich, ambitious, and engaging work. McCarthy has produced a significant piece of scholarship that will have wide impact upon the way television is taken up in the academy and elsewhere.
Anna McCarthy, 2001
4
Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become
This is a must read for everyone and a practical guide for designers." --Gary Marchionini, Ph.D., University of North Carolina "Find this book!
Peter Morville, 2005
5
Ambient Rhetoric: The Attunements of Rhetorical Being
In Ambient Rhetoric, Thomas Rickert seeks to dissolve the boundaries of the rhetorical tradition and its basic dichotomy of subject and object.
Thomas Rickert, 2013
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Human-Centric Interfaces for Ambient Intelligence
This is the first book to bridge data processing and intelligent reasoning methods for the creation of human-centered ambient intelligence systems.
Hamid Aghajan, Juan Carlos Augusto, Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado, 2009
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Algorithms in Ambient Intelligence
These systems provide users with information, communication, and entertainment at any desired place and time. Since its introduction in 1998, the vision of Ambient Intelligence has attracted much attention within the re search community.
Wim Verhaegh, Emile Aarts, Jan Korst, 2003
8
The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Moby - the Evolution of ...
This text shows how, from Debussy's early recordings through to contemporary revolutions in minimalism, rock, techno and trance, over 100 years of change were earthed by the development of ambient sound - to many, the most important ...
Mark J. Prendergast, 2003
9
AALIANCE Ambient Assisted Living Roadmap
This is followed by a detailed discussion of the application domains; AAL4persons (chapter 2), AAL@community (chapter 3), AAL@work (chapter 4) and a detailed presentation of the enabling technologies - sensing, reasoning, acting, ...
Ger van den Broek, Filippo Cavallo, Christian Wehrmann, 2010
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Ambient Networks: Co-operative Mobile Networking for the ...
This book offers a complete and detailed overview of the Ambient Networking concept and its core technologies.
Norbert Niebert, Andreas Schieder, Jens Zander, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AMBIENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ambient is used in the context of the following news items.
1
EPA SO2 NAAQS Designation Update: National Ambient Air Quality …
On March 20, 2015, EPA issued updated guidance for area designations for the 2010 one-hour primary SO2 NAAQS. The guidance was issued ... «The National Law Review, Jul 15»
2
Experts perfect ambient bioprinting
Importantly, the material was printed at ambient temperatures, making it a newly viable route to the production of materials for bone repair ... «Laboratory Talk, Jul 15»
3
Mouser - Highly-integrated low-power proximity / ambient light …
Silicon Labs Si114X proximity / ambient light sensor modules are now available from Mouser. They are low-power, reflectance-based, infrared ... «Electropages, Jul 15»
4
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #26
Ambient Sounds was very lucky last month to make it to Denovali's ... premier labels for ambient/drone/experimental music in recent years and ... «Drowned In Sound, Jul 15»
5
'Batman: Arkham Knight': News on Disabled Rain Effects, Ambient
Rocksteady is currently hard at work on improving the performance of "Batman: Arkham Knight" on PC. The patch for the said gaming platform ... «Christian Post, Jul 15»
6
Product Review: Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powders
If there's a product that has created some serious beauty buzz over the last year, it definitely has been the Hourglass Ambient Lighting powders. «Masala.com, Jun 15»
7
sonic motion translates visitors movements into ambient soundtrack
'sonic motion' is an interactive installation of bamboo, rope, and electronics, created by clea jentsch, meret vollenweider, kyungmin han, and ... «Designboom, Jun 15»
8
Lab tests show sapphire Apple Watch display suffers worse in …
While in total darkness performance between the two materials was essentially identical, at 500 lux — mid-level indoor ambient lighting ... «Apple Insider, Jun 15»
9
ECMAScript 6: A Better JavaScript for the Ambient Computing Era
He is also writing in his spare time about the technical and societal implications of the rapidly emerging Ambient Computing Era. «InfoQ.com, Jun 15»
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Batman Arkham Knight - First Patch for PC Fixes Ambient Occlusion …
Fixes the bug that disables rain and ambient occlusion. Fixed random crashes. The changelog indicates that the issues were caused by a bug and not because ... «WCCFtech, Jun 15»

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