AMBIT

AM'BIT, noun [Latin ambitus, a circuit, from ambio, to go about. See Ambient.]The line that encompasses a thing; in geometry, the perimeter of a figure, or the surface of a body. The periphery or circumference of a circular body.

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ambit. Ambit, n. a compass, a circumference

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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.