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noun

circumference; circuit.

boundary; limit.

a sphere of operation or influence; range; scope: the ambit of such an action.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin ambitus a going around, equivalent to amb- ambi- + itus a going (i- (stem of īre to go) + -tus suffix of v. action)

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ambit (ˈæmbɪt)

—n
1.	scope or extent
2.	limits, boundary, or circumference

[C16: from Latin ambitus a going round, from ambīre to go round, from ambi- + īre to go]

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ambit

late 14c., "a circuit," from L. ambitus "going round" (see ambition).

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AMBIT definition

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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)

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"We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintain it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States."

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