Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ambit"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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