Environment

Quick meaning: Environment is a noun meaning The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.

Meaning

The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.

More Meanings

1. The natural world or ecosystem.
2. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
3. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
4. (computing) The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
5. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
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.

Example Sentences

That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.

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.

What was seen from the top down, as a large environment with many difficult trade-offs, is instead seen from the bottom up--as 10 million microenvironments, each to be regulated in its own right. It is this inversion of perspective that distinguishes microgovernment from other kinds of regulation, and that accounts for its often-bizarre behavior.

Word Forms

• environments

Synonyms for environment

Depending on context, synonyms include domain, ecosystem, surrounding, umbworld, surround, surroundings.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include surroundings, surround, environs, milieu, ambiance, ambience.

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