environment
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹə.mənt/
The English word “environment” has 7 meanings listed here.
noun
- The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
- The natural world or ecosystem.
- All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
- A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
- The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
- 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.
- The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
Etymology
From Middle French environnement. Compare French environnement. By surface analysis, environ + -ment.
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