environment

environment

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of environment in English

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

environment (plural environments)

  1. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
  2. The natural world or ecosystem.
  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.
  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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References

  • “environment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • environment in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • “environment”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “environment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈenvirɔnment]

Noun

environment m inan (declension pattern of dub)

  1. environment
    Synonym: prostredie

Declension


Related terms

  • environmentálny (adjective)

Further reading

  • “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

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