environment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvaɪɹəmənt/
ipa: /ɪnˈvaɪɹənmənt/
ipa: /ɪnˈvajəmənt/
ipa: /ənˈ-/
ipa: /-mɪnt/
ipa: /ɪnˈvaɪɚ(n)mənt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɛnvɪɾɔnmənʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɛnˈvaɪɾɔnməɳʈ/
Forms: form: environments
Etymology: From Middle French environnement. Compare French environnement. By surface analysis, environ + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1998 September 19, Jonathan Rauch, “Tunnel Vision: The Dawn of Microgovernment”, in National Journal, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2012:
glosses: The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: The natural world or ecosystem.
glosses: All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
glosses: A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
examples: text: That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
Synonyms: domain
ecosystem
surrounding
umbworld
Derived terms: sense: With prefixes
word: agroenvironment
sense: With prefixes
word: antienvironment
sense: With prefixes
word: bioenvironment
sense: With prefixes
word: cryoenvironment
sense: With prefixes
word: cyberenvironment
sense: With prefixes
word: ecoenvironment
sense: With prefixes
word: environmetrics
sense: With prefixes
word: geoenvironment
sense: With prefixes
word: hydroenvironment
sense: With prefixes
word: macroenvironment
sense: With prefixes
word: microenvironment
sense: With prefixes
word: multienvironment
sense: With prefixes
word: nanoenvironment
sense: With prefixes
word: paleoenvironment
sense: With prefixes
word: photoenvironment
sense: With prefixes
word: socioenvironment
sense: With prefixes
word: subenvironment
sense: With suffixes
word: environmentability
sense: With suffixes
word: environmental
sense: With suffixes
word: environmentology
sense: Compound words and phrases
word: built environment
sense: Compound words and phrases
word: desktop environment
sense: Compound words and phrases
word: environment division
sense: Compound words and phrases
word: environment-friendly
sense: Compound words and phrases
word: environment mapping
sense: Compound words and phrases
word: environment variable
sense: Compound words and phrases
word: hostile environment
sense: Compound words and phrases
word: player versus environment
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word: space environment
sense: Compound words and phrases
word: work environment
sense: Compound words and phrases
word: working environment
Related terms: environ
environmentalism
environmentalist