environment

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle French environnement, equivalent to environ +‎ -ment. Compare French environnement.

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  • (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvaɪɹə(n)mənt/, /ənˈ-/, /-mɪnt/
  • (rhotic) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvaɪɚ(n)mənt/
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Noun[edit]

environment (plural environments)

  1. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
  2. The natural world or ecosystem.
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
      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. (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
    That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
  6. (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.
  7. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

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environment m inan (declension pattern of dub)

  1. environment
    Synonym: prostredie

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Further reading[edit]

  • environment”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024