ambient sound

collocation in English

meaningsofambientandsound

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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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sound
noun
uk
/saʊnd/us
/saʊnd/
something that you can hear or that can ...
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(Definition ofambientandsoundfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofambient sound

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The visual representation of a heat wave is accompanied by a change in theambientsoundemitters.
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The soundscape is changing as more and more works are introduced, just as theambientsoundis changing according to changing lifestyle patterns.
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Chance-determinedambientsound(the coughing of the audience, the rustling of programmes and creaking of chairs, for example) becomes the music.
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The track opens abruptly, with a scratchy vinyl quality that adds a particular cutting edge or grain to theambientsound.
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It has veryambientsound.
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The documentaries employambientsoundand music.
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The album had a more refined andambientsoundthan the band's previous work.
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Ambientsoundfrom the surrounding area was also captured and added later.
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The band is notable for its guitar-basedambientsoundand clear female vocals.
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They combinedambientsoundwith layers of electric guitars and dark, foreboding emotional overtones.
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It does this by recovering theambientsoundfrom a stereo recording.
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The band was still intending to improve on the mix withambientsoundand echo.
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If another player owns the same song being played, it will appear as anambientsoundfrom your car.
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From 1996, cello featured as both a melodic and rhythmic element, and sometimes as a source ofambientsound-effects.
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This function automatically adjusts the masking level based on distractions andambientsoundinstead of only environnemental sound.
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For example, an exhibition may be enhanced with topicalambientsoundof water, birds, train or machine noise.
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Ambientsoundlevels are often measured in order to map sound conditions over a spatial regime to understand their variation with locale.
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In that scene, even theambientsoundthat would normally be there was taken out in order to make it feel unusual.
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The verse then repeats, although there is now considerably more keyboard effects that do not feel musical so much asambientsound.
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The microphone's diaphragm is placed between the two ports; sound arriving from anambientsoundfield reaches both ports more or less equally.
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Or roadway noise is measured asambientsound, prior to introducing a hypothetical noise barrier intended to reduce that ambient noise level.
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Distant gunfire sounds, which may first seem like prerecordedambientsound, may often be the result of an actual firefight happening elsewhere in the game.
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Many critics complimented its blend of retro and modern electropop music, which was a departure from theambientsoundof their dbut album.
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Theambientsoundis extended to the base itself through such things as hissing pipes, footsteps, and occasional jarringly loud noises from machinery or other sources.
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The entire incident was captured by the sound department so that it can be used in the film's final cut to create the rightambientsoundin some crucial scenes.
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