Ambiance vs. Environment — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ambiance and Environment
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Ambiance
The special atmosphere or mood created by a particular environment
A restaurant known for its romantic ambiance.
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Environment
The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates
Survival in an often hostile environment
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Ambiance
A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.
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Environment
The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity
The impact of pesticides on the environment
A parliamentary environment committee
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Ambiance
A secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading.
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Environment
The totality of the natural world, often excluding humans
"Technology, of course, lies at the heart of man's relationship with the environment" (Mark Hertsgaard).
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Ambiance
A particular environment or surrounding influence;
There was an atmosphere of excitement
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Environment
A subset of the natural world; an ecosystem
The coastal environment.
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Ambiance
The atmosphere of an environment
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Environment
The combination of external physical conditions that affect and influence the growth, development, behavior, and survival of organisms
"Conditions in a lion's environment ... can drive it to hunt people" (Philip Caputo).
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Environment
The complex of social and cultural conditions affecting the nature of an individual person or community.
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Environment
The general set of conditions or circumstances
A terrible environment for doing business.
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Environment
The entire set of conditions under which one operates a computer, as it relates to the hardware, operating platform, or operating system.
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Environment
An area of a computer's memory used by the operating system and some programs to store certain variables to which they need frequent access.
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Environment
The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
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Environment
The natural world or ecosystem.
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Environment
All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
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Environment
A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
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Environment
(computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
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Environment
(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.
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Environment
(computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
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Environment
Act of environing; state of being environed.
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Environment
That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.
It is no friendly environment, this of thine.
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Environment
The totality of surrounding conditions;
He longed for the comfortable environment of his livingroom
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Environment
The area in which something exists or lives;
The country--the flat agricultural surround
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