Usually means: Surrounding environment or atmospheric conditions.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. ambient: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ambient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ambient: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ambient: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ambient: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ambient, ambient: Wordnik
  7. ambient: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ambient: Wiktionary
  9. ambient: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ambient: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ambient: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ambient: Dictionary.com
  13. ambient: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Ambient (album), Ambient (desktop environment), Ambient (novel), Ambient: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ambient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ambient: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ambient: Rhymezone
  18. Ambient: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ambient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. ambient: Free Dictionary
  21. ambient: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. ambient: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Ambient: World Wide Words

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ambient: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ambient (disambiguation), ambient: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ambient: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ambient (disambiguation), ambient: Medical dictionary
  4. Ambient: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ambient: Urban Dictionary

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Ambient: Building pathology glossary
  3. Ambient: Fiberglass Glossary
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.
adjective:  (music) Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.
adjective:  Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature.
adjective:  (mathematics) Containing objects or describing a setting that one is interested in.
noun:  Something that surrounds; encompassing material, substance or shape.
noun:  (astrology) The atmosphere; the surrounding air or sky; atmospheric components collectively such as air, clouds, water vapour, hail, etc.
noun:  (uncountable, music) A type of modern music that creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere.

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