1 the character of a place or the quality it seems to have:
The city’s ambience, particularly on the waterfront, is changing quickly.
The ambience of the spaces in which pupils worked signalled their musical function.
Another characteristic of hall ambience is the reduction of clarity through the 'smearing' of one sound into the next by the reverberation.
It is the nature of the diffused ambience that defines its archetypal character.
A lot of detail is added to our knowledge of the personalities involved, their motives and the political ambience of the period.
The small skylights produce a very dimmed ambience particularly well adapted to hot and sunny climates.
Most computer music concerts still take place in the ill-suited ambience of a darkened concert hall.
And if the sound is a recording of an environment, it includes the ambience of the recording as well as that of the listening environment.
Also, it seems typically to be great in agitated pieces and small and smooth in pieces with a calm ambience.