单词 | ambit |
释义 | ambit (once / 102777 pages) n An ambit is the area or range that someone controls or affects. The kid who's voted president of her sixth grade class is going to be thrilled, despite her relatively small ambit. The origins of ambit go back to the Latin word for "going about or going round," ambitus, and for a time, ambit literally meant "the area surrounding a building." Today, the range of a person or group's power is their ambit. For example, if a crime is committed on a college campus, the town police won't investigate if they decide that it's the ambit of the college police, or under their jurisdiction. WORD FAMILYambit: ambits USAGE EXAMPLESThe "black economy" could account for about a fifth of India's GDP, according to investment firm Ambit. BBC(Nov 13, 2016) Transactions that take place outside formal channels amounts to around 20 percent of India's annual $2 trillion gross domestic product, according to investment firm Ambit. Reuters(Nov 11, 2016) TripAdvisor has a slightly different problem: Its ambit is so broad that its recommendations have come to represent a safe median, a poll of polls. New York Times(Aug 23, 2016) 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper compass, orbit, range, reach, scope approximate range, ballpark near to the scope or range of something confinesa bounded scope contrastthe range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness) internationalism, internationalityquality of being international in scope latitudescope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction horizon, purview, viewthe range of interest or activity that can be anticipated expanse, sweepa wide scope gamuta complete extent or range: "a face that expressed a gamut of emotions" spectruma broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities palette, palletthe range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art extent the distance or area or volume over which something extends |
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