environment
IPA: ɪnvˈaɪrʌnmʌnt
noun
- The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
- The natural world or ecosystem.
- All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
- A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
- (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
- (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.
- (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
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Examples of "environment" in Sentences
- It is persistent in the environment.
- The environment consists of stimuli.
- The editing environment is intolerable.
- Ecology is the study of the environment.
- The environment is comprised of stimuli.
- The impact on the environment is the same or worse.
- The term environment of evolutionary adaptedness attachment theory.
- BIS promotes a very clean, healthy, unpolluted and natural environment.
- The term has a connotation of sustainability of the natural environment.
- The Municipality has nice scenery due to the hilly nature of the environment.
- The setting is the milieu or environment where the story and action takes place.
- However, I use the term environment in a different way than most are accustomed to.
- The term environment is used in this statement broadly to also include health, safety, and the conservation of natural resources.
- Attempts by Europe's far right to couch their anti-immigrant arguments in the language of the environment is another thing that surprised me.
- I have to admit that some of the insights had a “Well, Duh!” quality when I first read them ie that a phenotype which enjoys a reproductive advantage in one environment may be selected against in another environment*.
- A Goldman spokesman said: "The firm produced very good results for 2009, but the environment is very difficult and the board was mindful of that difficult environment in making decisions about executive compensation."
- That is, a non-mammalian is a fertilized egg _plus_ its parental (or extra-parental) environment; but a mammalian individual is a fertilized egg, _plus its intra-maternal environment_, plus its non-parental environment.
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