environment

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Etymology

From Middle French environnement, equivalent to environ + -ment.

Pronunciation

• (non-rhotic) IPA: /ɪnˈvaɪɹə(n)mənt/, /ənˈ-/, /-mɪnt/
• (rhotic) IPA: /ɪnˈvaɪɚ(n)mənt/

Noun

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 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.

Synonyms

• umbworld
• ecosystem
• surrounding
• domain

Related terms

• environ
• environmentalist
• environmentalism

Translations

• French: environnement
• German: Umgebung, Umwelt
• Italian: ambiente
• Portuguese: meio, ambiente, arredores
• Russian: среда́
• Spanish: ambiente, medio, entorno

Translations

• French: environnement
• German: Umwelt
• Italian: ambiente
• Portuguese: meio ambiente
• Russian: окружа́ющая среда́
• Spanish: medioambiente, medio ambiente, naturaleza, ecosistema

Translations

• German: Umfeld
• Italian: ambiente
• Portuguese: ambiente
• Russian: среда́
• Spanish: ambiente, clima

Translations

• German: Umgebung
• Italian: ambiente
• Portuguese: ambiente
• Russian: конфигура́ция
• Spanish: sistema operativo, programa, medio, entorno

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