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ambit
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n. an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; ...
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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 ...
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.
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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.