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ambit
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The sphere or area of control and influence of something. 2 A circuit, or a boundary around a property. 3 A span of actions, thoughts, or words.
Wikipedia
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AMBIT is a historical programming language that was introduced by Carlos Christensen in 1964 for symbolic computation . The language was influenced by ALGOL 60 and is an early example of a pattern matching language for manipulation of strings (a more popular ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I recollect having urged Wigg on many occasions to limit the ambit of the Profumo affair. ▪ Justice entailed bringing all relations within the ambit of divine order. ▪ Restaurants, cafes and public houses are outside the ambit ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ambit \Am"bit\, n. [L. ambitus circuit, fr. ambire to go around. See Ambient .] Circuit or compass. His great parts did not live within a small ambit. --Milward.
Usage examples of ambit.
English, bring it within the ambit of the English Tripos and yet avoid offending the experts?
Fish that were local in their ambit made the net their neighbourhood, and the quick ones, the ones that tended to streak by, the dorados, slowed down to visit the new development.
After all, matters of high Imperial policy are somewhat outside the ambit of even senior officers of merchantmen, even those who at one time held the exalted rank of Mate in the Dog Star Line.
This is the big one: I secured a concession from Dmitri Rykov that the ambit of the discussion need not exclude thermonuclear weapons, strategic weapons, inner space, international inspec-tion, tactical nuclear weapons, conventional weapons and manpower levels, or disengagement of forces along the Iron Curtain line.