AMBIENT

, encompassing round about; as the bodies which are placed about any other body, are called ambient bodies, and sometimcs circum-ambient bodies; and the whole mass of the air or atmosphere, because it encompasses all things on the face of the earth, is called the ambient air.

AMBIGENAL Hyperbola, a name given by Newton, in his Enumeratio linearum tertii ordinis, to one of the triple hyperbolas EGF of the second order, having one of its infinite legs, as EG, falling within the angle ACD, formed by the asymptotes AC, CD, and the other leg GF falling without that angle.