ENVIRONMENT

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

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Etymology

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• umbworld

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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