ambient

[In Fr. ambiant; Port. am biente, adj.; Sp. & Ital. ambiente, as s. = the ambient air. From Lat. ambiens, pr. par. of ambio to go around or about.] Surrounding, encompa ing on all sides, circumfused, investing. (Used especially of the air, but also of other things.) and this which yields or fills All space, the ambient air wide interfused." Milton: P. L., bk. vil "With darkne circled and an ambient cloud." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, bk. vii., 187. "Blue ambient mists th' immortal steeds embraced." Pope: Homer's Iliad , bk. vifi., 63. deep in ambient skies." ". Ibid ., bk. v., 936, "In vain their clamours shake the ambient fields." Ibid . , bk. xii. 155. From ăm-big-ẹn-al, a . [In Ger. ambigene. Lat. ambo both, and genu = the knee. Lit. = pertaining to both knees.] Geometry: A word used in the following mathematical term: An ambigenal hyperbola . Sir Isaac Newton's name for one of the triple hyperbolas of the second order, having one of its infinite legs falling within an angle formed by the asymptotes, and the other falling without.