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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ambit /ˈambɪt/

▶noun the scope, extent, or bounds of something.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘precincts, environs’): from L. ambitus ‘circuit’, from ambire ‘go round’.

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