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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
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ambit is a quarterly literary periodical published in the United Kingdom . The magazine was founded in 1959 by Martin Bax , a London paediatrician. The headquarters of the magazine is in London.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "space surrounding a building or town; precinct;" 1590s, "a circuit," from Latin ambitus "a going round," past participle of ambire "to go round, to go about" (see ambient ).
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.