AMBIT : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: AMBIT	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ambit n an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "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" Synonym(s): scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, 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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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)