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Environment

En-vi′ron-ment

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
environnement
.]
1.
Act of environing; state of being environed.
2.
That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.
It is no friendly
environment
, this of thine.
Carlyle.

Definition 2024


environment

environment

English

Noun

environment (plural environments)

  1. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
  2. The natural world or ecosystem.
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
      It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: [];  []; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
  3. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
  4. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
  5. (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
    That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
  6. (programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
  7. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

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