ambient air

collocation in English

meaningsofambientandair

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ambient
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈæm.bi.ənt/
us
/ˈæm.bi.ənt/
(especially of environmental conditions) existing in the ...
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air
noun
uk
/r/
us
/er/
the mixture of gases that surrounds the earth and that ...
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(Definition ofambientandairfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofambient air

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During the male phase, the inflorescence is clearly warmer thanambientair.
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The opposite wall was transparent and exposed to theambientairtemperature.
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In the model, theambientairis assumed to move with axial as well as tangential velocity components.
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In facility heat treatments, gas, electric or steam heaters are used to slowly heat theambientair.
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It therefore offers a rich data set of nearly two decades of readings onambientairand water pollution concentrations.
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At such times, temperatures at the centre site frequently exceeded that ofambientairtemperature during daytime hours.
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Using six indicators ofambientairand water pollution, we found that pollution is monotonically increasing in corruption.
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Average daily mean values in 2000-2001 appear to identify similar temperature conditions ofambientairand the three microsites.
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The experiments were run indoors with only very minorambientairmovement to distribute the pheromone chemical.
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As it is difficult to obtainambientairquality at the firm level, we use an emissions standard.
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There is nothing aboutambientairtemperature.
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During the evening, the water vapour condensed on the internal components of the wall panel when theambientairtemperature dropped.
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In all cases studied, however, the jets were allowed to mix freely withambientair, and static pressure effects were consequently minimized.
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Figure 5 illustrates this effect on the growth rates of various unstable modes when theambientairis swirling with a solid-body-rotation profile.
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Hence, it is quite conceivable that in many casesambientairquality could not be met despite a high degree of compliance among individual polluters.
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Ionization at the lower level (termed a ' dribble ' by the manufacturer) rapidly dissipates, barely affecting concentration in theambientaircirculation.
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Therefore, the axisymmetric mode becomes the dominant mode in the breakup of the liquid jet as swirl is added to theambientair.
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The other reflects the desirability to reduce pollutants in a city/airshed so as to achieve the legislatedambientairquality standards for that city.
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Further, intra-plant trades would result in significant savings to the steel plant while securing an improvement inambientairquality in the studied geographical area.
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Thus, trading scenario obtained from this exercise would ensure that theambientairquality standard is not violated at any time during the year.
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Several blanks were used, including field blanks (ambientairat remote, near sampling and vegetated sites), laboratory air blanks and procedural blanks.
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Results show that intra-plant trading would result in significant savings to the industry, while contributing to improvement inambientairquality in the studied geographical area.
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The more distant the two curves are, the greater is the temperature difference between the inflorescence andambientair, and thus the inflorescence is heating up.
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The negative value for the emissions per km2 indicates that countries with worseambientairconcentrations in 1990 have set higher targets, which is intuitively very appealing.
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