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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
ambit is a noun meaning "an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"". It carries one recorded sense.
an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"
“a piano has a greater range than the human voice”
“the ambit of municipal legislation”
“within the compass of this article”
“within the scope of an investigation”
“outside the reach of the law”
“in the political orbit of a world power”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ambit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.