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Chillout vs Ambient - What's the difference?

chillout | ambient | Synonyms |

Ambient is a synonym of chillout.



As nouns the difference between chillout and ambient

is that chillout is a period of quiet, rest and relaxation, especially after a party etc while ambient is something that surrounds.

As an adjective ambient is

encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.

chillout

English

Alternative forms

* chill-out * chill out

Noun

(en noun)
  • (colloquial) A period of quiet, rest and relaxation, especially after a party etc.
  • * 2011 , Chris Gibson, John Connell, Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia , page 70, ISBN 1845412095
    • The Gloucester Chamber of Commerce cancelled this year's SnowFest . President Peter Markey says instead a 'chillout day' is being held at the end of the month.

    ambient

    English

    (wikipedia ambient)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.
    • A cup of tea eventually cools to the ambient temperature.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • A glorious pile whose tow'ring summit ambient clouds concealed.
  • * Milton
    • This which yields or fills all space, the ambient air wide interfused.
  • (music) Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.
  • Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature.
    • ambient food
    ambient warehousing
  • (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
    • 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 9783540888666), 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 9781441977656), page 163
    • A point in the manifold is classically represented by a vector in the ambient space.

    Noun

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

    Synonyms

    * (music) ambient music, chillout

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