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Vinony

environment

noun

  1. in systems and engineering, part of the universe outside the boundaries of a system
  2. surrounding of an organism or population
  3. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest
  4. The natural world or ecosystem
  5. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs
  6. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition
  7. (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system
  8. (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
  9. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹə.mənt/ / /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹən.mənt/ / /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɚn.mənt/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Middle French environnementbor. English environment From Middle French environnement. Compare French environnement. By surface analysis, environ + -ment.

  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 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.”

  3. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
  4. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
  5. The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

    “That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.”

  6. 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. The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.