environment, environs, surroundings, surround
(noun) the area in which something exists or lives; “the country--the flat agricultural surround”
environment
(noun) the totality of surrounding conditions; “he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
environment (plural environments)
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.
(computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
(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.
(computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
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Source: Wiktionary
En*vi"ron*ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. environnement.]
1. Act of environing; state of being environed.
2. That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development. It is no friendly environment, this of thine. Carlyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 September 2024
(noun) a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
