different between ambient vs ambiance

English

Etymology

From Latin ambi?ns (“going around”), from ambi? (“go around”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?æm.bi?.?nt/

Adjective

ambient (comparative more ambient, superlative most ambient)

1. Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

     This which yields or fills all space

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.
   • 1996, Moshe Machover, Set Theory, Logic and Their Limitations, Cambridge University Press ?ISBN, page 282

     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).

   • 2008, Akihiro Kanamori, The Higher Infinite: Large Cardinals in Set Theory from Their Beginnings, Springer Science & Business Media ?ISBN, page 369

     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.

   • 2011, Henry W. Haslach Jr., Maximum Dissipation Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and its Geometric Structure, Springer Science & Business Media ?ISBN, page 163

     A point in the manifold is classically represented by a vector in the ambient space.

Translations

Noun

ambient (countable and uncountable, plural ambients)

1. Something that surrounds; encompassing material, substance or shape.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:

     Much after this same manner, when the Air is exceeding cold through which it passes; do we find the drops of Rain, falling from the Clouds, congealed into round Hail-stones by the freezing Ambient.

2. (astrology) The atmosphere; the surrounding air or sky; atmospheric components collectively such as air, clouds, water vapour, hail, etc.
   • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):

     It might be also, that attracted by that great void Vacuum ... all the ambients would be rarified, and particularly, the air.

3. (uncountable, music) A type of modern music that creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere.
   • 1996, SPIN magazine (volume 12, number 3, page 116)

     Ambient can be flabby synth mulch that needs to access cyberism and external philosophies to convince you you're not being scammed.

Synonyms

• (music): ambient music, chillout

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “ambient”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Derived terms

• ambient device
• ambient findability
• ambient food
• ambient house
• ambient-like
• ambiently
• ambientness
• ambient pressure
• illbient
• psybient

References

• ambient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• ambient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ambi?ns.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?m.bi?ent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?m.bi?en/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /am.bi?ent/

Adjective

ambient (masculine and feminine plural ambients)

1. ambient

Derived terms

• ambiental
• ambientar
• medi ambient

Noun

ambient m (plural ambients)

1. ambience, atmosphere
2. environment

Further reading

• “ambient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ambient” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “ambient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ambient” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

ambient (not comparable)

1. (very rare, widely unintelligible) ambient

Declension

Ladin

Noun

ambient m (plural ambienc)

1. environment

Latin

Verb

ambient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of ambi?

Portuguese

Noun

ambient m (uncountable)

1. (music) ambient (genre of electronic music with a slow, atmospheric tone)

English

Alternative forms

• ambience

Etymology

Borrowed from French ambiance.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æm.bi.?ns/, /??m.bi.?ns/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æm.bi.?ns/, /??m.bi.?ns/

Noun

ambiance (countable and uncountable, plural ambiances)

1. A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.
2. (computer graphics, 3D models) A secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading.

Related terms

• ambient

Translations

See also

• atmosphere
• mood

French

Etymology

ambiant +? -ance

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.bj??s/
• Homophones: ambiancent, ambiances
• Hyphenation: am?biance
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

ambiance f (plural ambiances)

1. ambiance, atmosphere

Verb

ambiance

1. first-person singular present indicative of ambiancer
2. third-person singular present indicative of ambiancer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ambiancer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ambiancer
5. second-person singular imperative of ambiancer

Further reading

• “ambiance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).