Ambient vs Ambident - What's the difference?
ambient | ambident |
Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.
* Alexander Pope
* Milton
(music) Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.
Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature.
(mathematics) Containing]] objects or [[describe, describing a setting that one is interested in.
* 1996 , Moshe Machover, Set Theory, Logic and Their Limitations , Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9780521479981), page 282
* 2008 , Akihiro Kanamori, The Higher Infinite: Large Cardinals in Set Theory from Their Beginnings , Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9783540888666), page 369
* 2011 , Henry W. Haslach Jr., Maximum Dissipation Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and its Geometric Structure , Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9781441977656), page 163
Something that surrounds.
(uncountable, music) A type of modern music which incorporates elements of various musical styles, and creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere.
* 1996 , SPIN magazine (volume 12, number 3, page 116)
(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):
(chemistry) Describing a molecule or group that has two alternative and interacting reaction sites, to either of which a bond may be made during a reaction
:: Ambident' dienophile 57 reacts with DAPC 54 at the cyclobutene ?-bond to produce ligand 58; in contrast, the related ' ambident dienophile 59 reacts with DAPC 54 at the naphthoquinone ?-center to produce adduct 60 (lack of shielding of the methylene protons supports the stereochemical assignment).
As adjectives the difference between ambient and ambident
is that ambient is encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping while ambident is (chemistry) describing a molecule or group that has two alternative and interacting reaction sites, to either of which a bond may be made during a reaction.As a noun ambient
is something that surrounds.ambient
English
(wikipedia ambient)Adjective
(en adjective)- A cup of tea eventually cools to the ambient temperature.
- A glorious pile whose tow'ring summit ambient clouds concealed.
- This which yields or fills all space, the ambient air wide interfused.
- ambient food
- ambient warehousing
- 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).
- 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.
- A point in the manifold is classically represented by a vector in the ambient space.
Noun
(en noun)- Ambient can be flabby synth mulch that needs to access cyberism and external philosophies to convince you you're not being scammed.
- It might be also, that attracted by that great void Vacuum ... all the ambients would be rarified, and particularly, the air.
Synonyms
* (music) ambient music, chilloutReferences
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Adjective
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