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3 definitions found 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 1.6 [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}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: AMBITAlgebraic 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)
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