different between ambient vs ubiquitous

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 Latin ubique (“everywhere”), from ubi (“where”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ju??b?k.w?.t?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ju?b?k.w?.t?s/

Adjective

ubiquitous (not comparable)

1. Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.

   Synonym: omnipresent

2. Appearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time.
   • 1851 – Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 41

     One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.

   Synonym: ever-present

3. Widespread; very prevalent.

   Synonyms: common, pervasive

Quotations

• 1927–1929 – Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part V (XII) The Stain of Indigo, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai

  I returned to the Ashram. The ubiquitous Chetaskumar was there too.

Synonyms

• see also Thesaurus:widespread

Derived terms

• ubiquitously

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

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