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AMBIENT (from Lat. ambi, on both sides, and ire, to go)

AMBIENT (from See also:
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Lat. ambi, on both sides, and ire, to go) , surrounding; a word implying a moving rather than a stationary encircling . It is used mostly in the phrase the " See also:

AMBIENT (from Lat. ambi, on both sides, and ire, to go)

ambient See also:

air," though See also:

Bacon applied it as an See also:

ADJECTIVE (from the Lat. adjectives, added)

adjective to the See also:

clergy, suggesting " ambition." In See also:

ASTROLOGY

astrology it means the See also:

SKY (M. Eng. skie, cloud; O. Eng. skua, shade; connected with an Indo-European root sku, cover, whence " scum," Lat. obscurus, dark, &c.)

sky .

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