Ambient vs. Environment

Ambientadjective

Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.

Ambientadjective

(music) Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.

Ambientadjective

Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature.

Ambientadjective

(mathematics) Containing objects or describing a setting that one is interested in.

Ambientnoun

Something that surrounds; encompassing material, substance or shape.

Ambientnoun

(astrology) The atmosphere; the surrounding air or sky; atmospheric components collectively such as air, clouds, water vapour, hail, etc.

Ambientnoun

A type of modern music that creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere.

Ambientadjective

Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing.

Ambientnoun

Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient.

Ambientadjective

completely enveloping;

Environmentnoun

The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.

Environmentnoun

The natural world or ecosystem.

Environmentnoun

All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.

Environmentnoun

A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.

Environmentnoun

(computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

Environmentnoun

(programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.

Environmentnoun

(computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

Environmentnoun

Act of environing; state of being environed.

Environmentnoun

That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.

Environmentnoun

the totality of surrounding conditions;

Environmentnoun

the area in which something exists or lives;

Environmentnoun

the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates

Environmentnoun

the setting or conditions in which a particular activity is carried on

Environmentnoun

the overall structure within which a user, computer, or program operates

Environmentnoun

the natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity