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ambitus

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ambitus [′am·bə·təs]
(biology)
The periphery or external edge, as of a mollusk shell or leaf.

ambitus
1. A small niche in underground Roman or Greek tombs, forming a receptacle for a cinerary urn.
2. In the Middle Ages, such a niche, but enlarged to admit a coffin.
3. In the Middle Ages, the consecrated ground surrounding a church.


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Wistreich notes that the two-octave ambitus of the one found the second edition of Vincenzo Galilei's Fronimo of 1584 bears witness to the ever-wider ranges cultivated by Brancaccio and his colleagues.
In the current article, the term tropos will be used to refer to any scale that is defined by a characteristic intervallic configuration; whereas, the term mode will be used to refer to any of the eight members of the Byzantine modal system, known as Octaechos, that is defined by its ambitus and final.
Tags on jaws are more accurate than tags on test ossicles because ossicles move toward the oral surface during growth (Duetler, 1926), requiring matching ossicles at the time of tagging with ambitus ossicles at the time of collection (Ebert, 1988).
 
 
 
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