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AMBIENT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Completely enveloping
Example:
the ambient temperature
Classified under:
Similar:
close (at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other)
Derivation:
ambience (a particular environment or surrounding influence)
Context examples:
The amount of ambient light/darkness to which a subject is exposed in a period of time.
(Light Cycle, NCI Thesaurus)
The concept does not refer to the problem resulted from ambient temperature.
(Insufficient Cooling Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)
Taking ambient air into the lungs; breathing in.
(Inspiration, NCI Thesaurus)
The researchers examined the relationship between test results, self-reported non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use and ambient particulate matter and black carbon in the month preceding the test.
(Aspirin Could Cut Air Pollution Harms, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
"Blue sharks can’t regulate their body temperature internally to stay warmer than the ambient seawater like white sharks can," said Braun.
(Blue sharks use ocean eddies as fast-tracks to food, National Science Foundation)
200 nanometres is especially significant because it is greater than the thickness of material needed to completely absorb ambient light, making these polymers more suitable as light harvesters for solar cells and photodetectors.
(Plastic crystals hold key to record-breaking energy transport, Universities of Cambridge)
The report found that the highest death rates among children between the ages of 5 and 14 from both ambient and household air pollution occur in the African region.
(WAir Pollution a Health Risk for Children, Lisa Schlein/VOA)
The bright clouds form when the flow of ambient air is perturbed and diverted upward over the dark vortex, causing gases to likely freeze into methane ice crystals.
(Hubble Imagery Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune, NASA)
The bright clouds form when the flow of ambient air is perturbed and diverted upward over the dark vortex, causing gases to freeze into methane ice crystals.
(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)
Researchers listened to more than a year's worth of Earth's rumblings, from ambient noise to actual earthquakes, using a network of 19 ocean-bottom seismographs deployed across the Mariana Trench, along with seven island-based seismographs.
(Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior, National Science Foundation)
