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Peripheral vs Ambient - What's the difference?

peripheral | ambient |

As adjectives the difference between peripheral and ambient

is that peripheral is on the periphery or boundary while ambient is encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.

As nouns the difference between peripheral and ambient

is that peripheral is (computing) a device, such as a printer or scanner, connected to a computer while ambient is something that surrounds.

peripheral

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • on the periphery or boundary
  • beside the point
  • unimportant
  • auxiliary
  • (neuroanatomy) a part of or located in the peripheral nervous system
  • * {{quote-journal , year=1988 , date=1 March 1988 , author= , title=Isolation and analysis of the gene encoding peripheral myelin protein zero , journal=Neuron citation
  • , passage=We have isolated the gene encoding the Schwann cell glycoprotein P0, the major structural protein of the peripheral myelin sheath.}}

    Derived terms

    * peripherally * peripheral vision * peripheral nervous system

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) a device, such as a printer or scanner, connected to a computer
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  • peripheral vision
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  • * 2014 , Bill Ladson, "Zimmerman handles left field with ease -- and no E's" on MLB.com
  • I was kind of looking at the ball, keeping him in my peripheral and all of sudden I see him closing in on the ball.

    Synonyms

    * peripheral device

    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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