Noun

(en noun)

The sphere or area of control and influence of something.

* 1913 , , The Judgment House , ch. 34,

He had invited Destiny to sweep him up in her reaping, by placing himself in the ambit of her scythe.

A circuit, or a boundary around a property.

A span of actions, thoughts, or words.

Noun

(en-noun)

Specter, apparition.

A range; a continuous, infinite, one-dimensional set, possibly bounded by extremes.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation

, passage=As Mr. Obama prepared to take the oath, his approval rating touched a remarkable 70 percent in some polling — a reflection of good will across the political spectrum .}}

Specifically, a range of colours representing light (electromagnetic radiation) of contiguous frequencies; hence electromagnetic spectrum, visible spectrum, ultraviolet spectrum, etc.

* 2010 October 30, Jim Giles, Jammed!'', in '' ,

Current 3G technologies can send roughly 1 bit of data - a one or a zero - per second over each 1 Hz of spectrum that the operator owns.

(chemistry) The pattern of absorption or emission of radiation produced by a substance when subjected to energy (radiation, heat, electricity, etc.).

(mathematics, linear algebra) The set of eigenvalues of a matrix.

(mathematics, functional analysis) Of a bounded linear operator A'', the set of scalar values ? such that the operator ''A—?I'', where ''I denotes the identity operator, does not have a bounded inverse; intended as a generalisation of the linear algebra sense.