environment
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See also Environment
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
As if environ + -ment; compare to French environnement.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnˈvaɪɹə(n)mɨnt/, /ɪnˈvaɪɚ(n)mɨnt/, SAMPA: /In"vaIr@(n)mInt/, /In"vaI@`(n)mInt/
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[edit] Noun
environment (plural environments)
- The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
- The natural world or ecosystem.
- All the elements over which a designer has no control and that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
- A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
- (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
- That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
- (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.
- (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
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[edit] Translations
area around something
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natural world or ecosystem
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political or social setting, arena or condition
software or hardware on a computer
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[edit] External links
- environment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- environment in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- environment at OneLook Dictionary Search
