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Environment
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- 1 The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
"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."
- 2 the area in which something exists or lives wordnet
- 3 The natural world or ecosystem.
"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."
- 4 the totality of surrounding conditions wordnet
- 5 All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
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- 6 A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
- 7 The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
"That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment."
- 8 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.
- 9 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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