Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ambient

Ambient ({not transcribed}) , adjective

[Latin ambiens, present participle of ambire to go around; amb- + ire to go.]

Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing.
Ambient air. — Milton
Ambient clouds. — Pope

Ambient , noun

Something that surrounds or invests; as, air... being a perpetual ambient. — Sir H. Wotton