CIRCUMAMBIENCE Synonyms

• a particular environment or surrounding influence

• a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade

• the mass of air surrounding the Earth

• the weather or climate at some place

• the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body

• a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing

• a person's social heritage: previous experience or training

• the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground

• information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem

• extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured

• relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation

• the state of the environment in which a situation exists

• (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear

• scenery hung at back of stage

• understate the importance or quality of

• discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation

• the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event

• the totality of surrounding conditions

• the area in which something exists or lives

• the environmental condition

• the context and environment in which something is set

• the state of the environment in which a situation exists

• arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted

• the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event

• the physical position of something

• a table service for one person

• a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place

• the environmental condition

• the area in which something exists or lives