ambit

Noun

Meaning

Circuit or compass.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

range compass reach orbit scope area field region course circuit tour limit round border edge
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Antonyms

center area focus angle verge midpoint
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Hypernyms

extent

Hyponyms

view contrast spectrum horizon latitude sweep

Anagrams

imbat timba

Examples

A poem therefore is to be defined as a structure of words whose sound constitutes a rhythmical unity, complete in itself, irrefragable, unanalyzable, completing its symbolic references within the ambit of its sound effects. Herbert Read

We want industry to be in the public sector, to change the power structure of our society...We have not yet carved out of public enterprise a wide enough area of management decision which ought properly to be brought within the ambit of the workers themselves. Tony Benn

the range of a supersonic jet Source: Internet

a piano has a greater range than the human voice Source: Internet

the ambit of municipal legislation Source: Internet

within the compass of this article Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ambisyllabic ambisyllabically ambisyllabicity ambit claim ambitendency Ambitho