environment

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[edit] Etymology

French environ + -ment

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[edit] Noun

Singular
environment

Plural
environments

environment (plural environments)

  1. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
  2. The natural world or ecosystem.
  3. All the elements over which a designer has no control and 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.

[edit] Translations

area around something
natural world or ecosystem
political or social setting, arena or condition
software or hardware on a computer
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