ambience

Fri Sep 27 22:42:06 UTC 2024

% dict ambience
2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  ambience
      n 1: a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there
           was an atmosphere of excitement" [syn: {atmosphere},
           {ambiance}, {ambience}]
      2: the atmosphere of an environment [syn: {ambiance},
         {ambience}]

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compared to your average website, the atmosphere of a tilde is a few exponents away into rawness. you wouldn't run the average stack not only because it does not fit the climate but also because the environment likely does not support it.

it speaks volumes on the topic of ambience.

% env | wc -c

805

unix systems also have their environments. the most pervasive one being the shell. the shell knows its environment and behaves differently according to it. each shell considers different entities in this environment, ignoring some and being drastically affected by others.