environment

Meaning

  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.

Synonyms

surroundings
C2
atmosphere
B2
surrounding
C1
milieu
42k
circumstances
B1
ambiance
34k
setting
B2
medium
C1
neighborhood
B1
environs
situation
A2
nature
B1
neighbourhood
C1
ambience
26k
entourage
C2
vicinity
C2
place
A1
context
C1
surround
C1
circumstance
C2
conditions
B2
centre
B2
mean
A1
average
B2
climate
C1
midst
C1
inside
A1
proximity
C2
purlieu
region
B2
sphere
C2
weather
B1
peripheric

surrounding area

air
A2

ecological zonation

ecological zones

adjacency
circumjacency
all around
allotment
31k
ambient
23k
area
A2
artsy
38k
arty
26k
aura
C2
background
B2
circumference
29k
earth
A1
encircling
Translations

environnement
ambiente
Umwelt
ambiente
milieu
omgeving

περιβάλλον

medio ambiente
milieu
Umgebung
ambiente
Milieu
entorno
meio
Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪnˈvaɪɹə(n)mənt/
Etymology

Cognate with French
French
environnement
In summary

From Middle French environnement. Compare French environnement. By surface analysis, environ + -ment.

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