different between ambient vs ambition

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

Etymology

From Middle English ambicion, from Old French ambition, from Latin ambiti? (“ambition, a striving for favor, literally 'a going around', especially of candidates for office in Rome soliciting votes”), from ambi? (“I go around, solicit votes”). See ambient, issue.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æm?b?.??n/

Noun

ambition (countable and uncountable, plural ambitions)

1. (uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
   • 1756, Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society

     the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres

2. (countable) An object of an ardent desire.

3. A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
4. (uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
5. (obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ambition.

Related terms

• ambience
• ambient
• ambit
• ambitious
• ambitionist

Translations

Verb

ambition (third-person singular simple present ambitions, present participle ambitioning, simple past and past participle ambitioned)

1. To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
   • 1746, C Turnbull, The Histories Of Marcus Junianus Justinus

     Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.

Further reading

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

Danish

Noun

ambition c

1. ambition

Declension

Related terms

• ambitiøs

Further reading

• “ambition” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “ambition” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Finnish

Noun

ambition

1. Genitive singular form of ambitio.

French

Etymology

From Latin ambiti?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.bi.sj??/

Noun

ambition f (plural ambitions)

1. ambition (feeling)

Related terms

• ambitieux
• ambitionner

Further reading

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

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

ambition c

1. en ambition

Declension

Related terms

• ambitiös