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Ambient   /ˈæmbiənt/   Listen
Ambient

adjective
1.
Completely enveloping.  "Ambient sound" , "The ambient temperature"





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"Ambient" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the old New Town—nor to the new New Town—nor to the Calton Hill. I went to the Canongate, and to the very portion of the Canongate in which I had formerly been immured, like the errant knight, prisoner in some enchanted castle, where spells have made the ambient air impervious to the unhappy captive, although the organs of sight encountered no obstacle to his ...
— Chronicles of the Canongate • Sir Walter Scott
... chief of these are the Enupits, who are pigmies dwelling about the springs, and the Rock Rovers, who live in the cliffs. Their gods are zoic, and the chief among them are the wolf, the rabbit, the eagle, the jay, the rattlesnake, and the spider. They have no knowledge of the ambient air, but the winds are the breath of beasts living in the four quarters of the earth. Whirlwinds that often blow among the sand-dunes are caused by the dancing of Enupits. The sky is ice, and the rain is caused ...
— Canyons of the Colorado • J. W. Powell
... his side and lifted his head. Ah, a drear and ghastly face it was, turned up to the gorgeous sunset, the gentle ambient air, the happy, fleeting shadows of ...
— The Ordeal - A Mountain Romance of Tennessee • Charles Egbert Craddock


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