Ambit \Am"bit\, n. [L. ambitus circuit, fr. ambire to go around.
See Ambient.]
Circuit or compass.
[1913 Webster]
His great parts did not live within a small ambit.
--Milward.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ambit
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"; "in the political orbit
of a world power" [syn: scope, range, reach, orbit,
compass]
WordNet (r) 2.0
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "ambit":
alentours, ambience, arena, bailiwick, beat, border, borderland,
borderlands, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies,
circumstances, compass, constituency, context, cycle, demesne,
department, domain, dominion, entourage, environing circumstances,
environment, environs, extension, extent, field, footing,
full circle, gestalt, habitat, hemisphere, judicial circuit,
jurisdiction, lap, loop, march, milieu, neighborhood, orb, orbit,
outposts, outskirts, pale, perimeter, periphery, precinct,
precincts, province, purlieus, purview, radius, reach, realm,
revolution, round, round trip, rounds, scope, situation, sphere,
sphere of influence, stamping ground, suburbs, surroundings, sweep,
territory, total environment, tour, turf, turn, vantage, vicinage,
vicinity, walk
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
AMBIT
Algebraic Manipulation by Identity Translation
(also claimed: "Acronym May Be Ignored Totally").
An early pattern-matching language, developed by
C. Christensen of Massachusetts Computer Assocs in 1964, aimed
at algebraic manipulation.
[Sammet 1969, pp. 454-457].
(1994-12-08)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
ambit claim, compass, orbit, qet ambit technology, range, reach, scope
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