environment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle French environnementbor.
English environment
From Middle French environnement. Compare French environnement. By surface analysis, environ + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: environments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The natural world or ecosystem.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
pos: noun
gloss: A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
pos: noun
gloss: The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
pos: noun
examples: That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
pos: noun
Synonyms: domain
ecosystem
surrounding
umbworld
Related words: environ
environmentalism
environmentalist
Derived words: agroenvironment
antienvironment
bioenvironment
cryoenvironment
cyberenvironment
ecoenvironment
environmetrics
geoenvironment
hydroenvironment
macroenvironment
microenvironment
multienvironment
nanoenvironment
paleoenvironment
photoenvironment
socioenvironment
subenvironment
environmentability
environmental
environmentology
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: omgewing
lang: Albanian
word: mjedis
lang: Arabic
word: بِيئَة
roman: bīʔa
lang: Arabic
word: مُحِيط
roman: muḥīṭ
lang: Armenian
word: շրջապատ
roman: šrǰapat
lang: Armenian
word: միջավայր
roman: miǰavayr
lang: Azerbaijani
word: mühit
lang: Azerbaijani
word: şərait
lang: Bashkir
word: тирә-яҡ
roman: tirə-yaq
lang: Bashkir
word: әйләнә-тирә
roman: əylənə-tirə
lang: Bashkir
word: ара
roman: ara
lang: Belarusian
word: асяро́ддзе
roman: asjaróddzje
lang: Central Bikol
word: palibot
lang: Bulgarian
word: окръже́ние
roman: okrǎžénie
lang: Bulgarian
word: среда́
roman: sredá
lang: Catalan
word: medi
lang: Catalan
word: ambient
lang: Catalan
word: entorn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 環境 /环境
roman: huánjìng
lang: Czech
word: prostředí
lang: Czech
word: okolí
lang: Danish
word: miljø
lang: Danish
word: omgivelser
lang: Dutch
word: omgeving
lang: Esperanto
word: ĉirkaŭaĵo
lang: Estonian
word: keskkond
lang: Finnish
word: ympäristö
lang: French
word: environnement
lang: Galician
word: ambiente
lang: Georgian
word: გარემო
roman: garemo
lang: Georgian
word: გარემოცვა
roman: garemocva
lang: Georgian
word: გარესამყარო
roman: garesamq̇aro
lang: German
word: Umgebung
lang: German
word: Umwelt
lang: Greek
word: περιβάλλον
roman: perivállon
lang: Haitian Creole
word: anviwònman
lang: Hebrew
word: סְבִיבָה
roman: s'vivá
lang: Hindi
word: पर्यावरण
roman: paryāvraṇ
lang: Hindi
word: वातावरण
roman: vātāvraṇ
lang: Hungarian
word: környezet
lang: Hungarian
word: környék
lang: Icelandic
word: umhverfi
lang: Indonesian
word: lingkungan
lang: Irish
word: timpeallacht
lang: Italian
word: ambiente
lang: Japanese
word: 環境
roman: kankyō
lang: Kazakh
word: айнала
roman: ainala
lang: Kazakh
word: орта
roman: orta
lang: Kazakh
word: төңірек
roman: töñırek
lang: Kazakh
word: маңай
roman: mañai
lang: Korean
word: 환경
roman: hwan'gyeong
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: hawir
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: hawirdor
lang: Kyrgyz
word: чөйрө
roman: cöyrö
lang: Latvian
word: vide
lang: Lithuanian
word: aplinka
lang: Macedonian
word: средина
roman: sredina
lang: Malay
word: persekitaran
lang: Māori
word: taiao
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: miljø
lang: Iranian Persian
word: مُحیط
roman: mohit
lang: Iranian Persian
word: پیرامون
roman: pirâmun
lang: Polish
word: środowisko
lang: Portuguese
word: meio
lang: Portuguese
word: ambiente
lang: Portuguese
word: arredores
lang: Romanian
word: mediu
lang: Romanian
word: ambient
lang: Romanian
word: mediu ambiant
lang: Russian
word: среда́
roman: sredá
lang: Russian
word: окружа́ющая среда́
roman: okružájuščaja sredá
lang: Russian
word: окруже́ние
roman: okružénije
lang: Sanskrit
word: अम्बर
roman: ambara
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: àrainneachd
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: о̀колина
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: окруже́ње
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: òkolina
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: okružénje
lang: Slovak
word: prostredie
lang: Slovene
word: okolje
lang: Slovene
word: okolica
lang: Spanish
word: ambiente
lang: Spanish
word: medio
lang: Spanish
word: entorno
lang: Swahili
word: mazingira
lang: Swedish
word: miljö
lang: Swedish
word: natur
lang: Swedish
word: omgivning
lang: Tajik
word: муҳит
roman: muhit
lang: Tatar
word: мохит
roman: moxit
lang: Telugu
word: పర్యావరణం
roman: paryāvaraṇaṁ
lang: Thai
word: สภาพแวดล้อม
lang: Turkish
word: çevre
lang: Ukrainian
word: середо́вище
roman: seredóvyšče
lang: Urdu
word: ماحَول
roman: māhaul
lang: Uyghur
word: مۇھىت
roman: muhit
lang: Uzbek
word: muhit
lang: Vietnamese
word: môi trường
lang: Welsh
word: amgylchedd
lang: Yiddish
word: סבֿיבֿה
roman: svive