AMBIENT

AMBIENT, a Term applied to things round about.Thus, the Bodies situated around any other Body, are called the Ambient, and often the Circum-Ambient Bodies.And the whole Body of Air, because it encompasses all things on the Face of the Earth, is often by Physical Writers called, by way of Eminence, the Ambient, or Ambient Air.See AIR. The Word is formed of the Latin Ambire, to encompass, go round.

AMBIENT