Ambit

Definition: Ambit

Ambit

Noun

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ambit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Etymology: Ambit \Am"bit\, noun. [Latin expression ambitus circuit, from ambire to go around. See Ambient.]. (Websters 1913)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Ambit

Outline

Noun: outline, circumference; perimeter, periphery, ambit, circuit, lines tournure, contour, profile, silhouette; bounds; coast line.

Crosswords: Ambit

References

• AMBIT MICROSYSTEMS CORP: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Ambit (reference)

• Ambit perdurable (reference)

• Corporate Card Series: Ambit Microsystems - 2002 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

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Periodicals

• Ambit (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

kufi (abutment, border, borderline, bound, boundary, bourn, Bourne, butting, ceiling, compass, demarcation, division, edge, end, frontier, hedge, line, margin, Mark, measure, mete, radius, razor edge, stint, terminus), cak (bound, limit, margin, Mark, pale). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مدى (amplitude, carry, extent, gage, gauge, incidence, latitude, length, ocean, range, reach, scope, space, stretch, sweep), ‏نطاق (area, belt, compass, extension, field, framework, range, sash, stretcher, way, width, zone), ‏حدود (border, borderline, bound, boundary, confines, frontier, limit, outlines). (various references)

Bulgarian 

размер (amount, compass, dimension, extent, gauge, limit, mass, measure, percentage, rate, scale, size, volume), граница (barricade, border, borderline, bound, boundary, butting, confine, delimitation, demarcation, frontier, limit, mete, pale, party line, precinct, purview, radius, rand, term, verge), обсег (amplitude, area, coverage, extent, field, incidence, length, orb, purview, radius, range, reach, scope, shot, spread, swing), обиколка (circuit, girth, leg, round, round trip, roundabout, swing, tour, touring, turn, walk about), поле на действие (bailiwick). (various references)

Czech

oblast (area, corner, district, domain, land, part, realm, region, section, sphere, territory, zone). (various references)

Dutch

vallen onder (fall within the ambit of, fall within the scope of). (various references)

French

sphère, portée, limite. (various references)

German

Geltungsbereich. (various references)

Greek 

όριο (border, bound, boundary, bourn, Bourne, ceiling, confine, limit, limit to, mete, purview, stint, terminus), περίγραμμα (circumscription, contour, limb, outline, silhouette, template, templet), περίμετροσ (circuit, compass, perimeter, periphery). (various references)

Hungarian

környék (countryside, dump, environs, localities, neighborhood, periphery, precincts, purlieus, region, surrounding country, surroundings, vicinity). (various references)

Italian

ambito (compass, precincts, purview, scope), confini. (various references)

Pig Latin

ambitay

Portuguese

limites (limit, outskirts, precinct), extensão (area, bulk, compasses, continuation, denotation, denotement, dimension, distraction, expanse, expansion, extend, extension, extensiveness, extent, largeness, latitude, length, lengthways, measure, outspread, purview, range, room, scale, scope, size, space, spread, stretch), âmbito (circuit, demesne, extenuate, pale, range, reach, room, scope, space, sphere). (various references)

Romanian

perimetru (circumference, perimeter), limitã (barrier, border, borderland, bound, boundary, brink, ceiling, circumscription, coast, compass, confine, division, edge, end, extremity, limit, line, margin, pale, precinct, termination, terminus, tether, the last straw, verge), graniţã (barrier, border, bound, boundary, bourn, Bourne, confine, confines, division, extremity, frontier, March, margin, mete, terminus, verge), împrejurimi (environs, suburb, surroundings, vicinity). (various references)

Russian 

границы (admeasure, confines, metes and bounds, scope), окружение (ambience, encirclement, entourage, environment, milieu, round up, setting, surroundings). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obim (amplitude, bulk, circumference, extent, girth, latitude, parameter, perimeter, scope, volume), granica (border, bound, boundary, butting, confine, fringe, frontier, limit, line, march). (various references)

Spanish

límites (borderland, bounds, limit, pale, purlieu), casco (body, broken glass, cullet, empty, hat body, headphone, headset, helmet, hood, hoof, hoove, hulk, hull, potsherd, rump, shard, shell, sherd, trunk), ámbito (range, scope). (various references)

Swedish

område (area, beat, belt, circumscription, compass, department, district, division, domain, extent, field, frontier, line, lot, pale, precinct, quarter, region, section, sphere, surroundings, territory, tract, walk, yard, zone), omfång (bulk, cast-off, dimension, dimensions, distention, expanse, extend, extension, extent, range, ranging, scope, size, volume), gränser (frontiers, limits). (various references)

Turkish

alan (acceptor, area, arena, buyer, compass, consignee, court, courtyard, domain, extent, field, maidan, pitch, plaza, public square, purchaser, range, reach, realm, recipient, region, scope, space, sphere, square, susceptive, theater, theatre, tract, yard), ortam (ambiance, ambience, ambient, aroma, atmosphere, atmospheric, environment, medium, occasion, stage), muhit (circle, domain, entourage, milieu, neighborhood, neighbourhood, surroundings), etraf (adjacencies, circle, enviroment, environs, purlieus, surroundings, Vicinage, vicinity), çevre (adjacencies, ambiance, ambience, ambient, atmosphere, circle, circumference, climate, compass, contour, domain, ecological, entourage, environment, environmental, girth, milieu, neighborhood, neighbourhood, perimeter, periphery, precinct, precincts, premises, purlieus, radius, region, society, sphere, surroundings, vicinity). (various references)

Ukranian 

сфера (area, circle, orb, purview, range, realm, region, sphere, way, world), оточення (ambience, circumscription, encirclement, entourage, environs, milieu, setting, surround), місцевість (country, district, ground, locality, moorland, situation), межі (scope), діапазон (amplitude, gamut, spectrum). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chu vi ranh giới, đường bao quanh. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ambit": ambition, ambitioned, ambitioning, ambitionless, ambitions, ambitious, ambitiously, ambitiousness, ambitiousnesses, ambits. (additional references)

Words ending with "ambit": gambit. (additional references)

Words containing "ambit": gambits, overambitious, overambitiousness, overambitiousnesses, superambitious, unambitious. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ambit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abito, absit, adbit, albit, Ambato, ambi, ambig, ambio, ambitu, ambiv, Ambix, Ambrit, Ambriz, Ambu, Amcit, amibe, amita, amith, Ammi, Amoita, ancit, andit, arbit, cambist, elbit, Embeth, Gmbatu, imbit, Mabbut, Mahit, Pambio, Zammit. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bait, bima, iamb.

-2 letters: aim, ait, ami, bam, bat, bit, mat, mib, tab, tam.

-3 letters: ab, ai, am, at, ba, bi, it, ma, mi, ta, ti.

+1 letter: ambits, gambit, timbal.

+2 letters: ambient, baptism, basmati, bimetal, cambist, gambits, limbate, megabit, timbale, timbals, timbral.

+3 letters: ambients, ambition, ambivert, bailment, balmiest, baptisms, barmiest, basmatis, beamiest, bigamist, bimetals, cambists, imitable, lambiest, megabits, timbales, verbatim.

+4 letters: abominate, ambiguity, ambitions, ambitious, ambiverts, bacterium, badminton, bailments, baptismal, bedlamite, bigamists, birthmark, bombastic, bombinate, bromating, brominate, combating, combative, cymbalist, dithyramb, estimable, estimably, fibromata, fimbriate, imbricate, immutable, immutably, imputable, limitable, marbliest, marimbist, metabolic, multiband, multibank, rebaptism, sawtimber, subatomic, sublimate, submittal, thumbnail, timberman, timetable, tribalism, tribesman, wambliest.

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