English Explanatory Dictionary

environment

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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. The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
  6. 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. The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

Pronunciation

/ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹə.mənt/ /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹən.mənt/ En-uk-environment.ogg /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɚn.mənt/ /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɚ.mənt/ En-us-environment.ogg

Word forms

environment environments

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle French environnementbor. English environment From Middle French environnement. Compare French environnement. By surface analysis, environ + -ment.

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 built environment desktop environment environmental storytelling environment division environment-friendly environment mapping environment variable hostile environment player versus environment space environment work environment working environment

Translations

Afrikaans: omgewing Albanian: mjedis Arabic: بِيئَة Arabic: مُحِيط Armenian: շրջապատ Armenian: միջավայր Azerbaijani: mühit Azerbaijani: şərait Bashkir: тирә-яҡ Bashkir: әйләнә-тирә Bashkir: ара Belarusian: асяро́ддзе Central Bikol: palibot Bulgarian: окръже́ние Bulgarian: среда́ Catalan: medi Catalan: ambient Catalan: entorn Chinese Mandarin: 環境 /环境 Czech: prostředí Czech: okolí Danish: miljø Danish: omgivelser Dutch: omgeving Esperanto: ĉirkaŭaĵo Estonian: keskkond Finnish: ympäristö French: environnement Galician: ambiente Georgian: გარემო Georgian: გარემოცვა Georgian: გარესამყარო German: Umgebung German: Umwelt Greek: περιβάλλον Haitian Creole: anviwònman Hebrew: סְבִיבָה Hindi: पर्यावरण Hindi: वातावरण Hungarian: környezet Hungarian: környék Icelandic: umhverfi Indonesian: lingkungan Irish: timpeallacht Italian: ambiente Japanese: 環境 Kazakh: айнала Kazakh: орта Kazakh: төңірек Kazakh: маңай Korean: 환경 Northern Kurdish: hawir Northern Kurdish: hawirdor Kyrgyz: чөйрө Latvian: vide Lithuanian: aplinka Macedonian: средина Malay: persekitaran Māori: taiao
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