environment

Definitions

1. atmosphere
2. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
3. The natural world or ecosystem.
4. All of the physical, chemical, and biological conditions that together act on an organism or an ecological community and influence its growth and development. Soil, air, water, climate, plant and animal life, noise level, and pollution are all components of an environment. To survive, organisms must often adapt to changes in their environments.
5. the study of the relationship of flowers to their environment. — anthoecologic, anthoecological, adj.
   adj
6. room (clarification of this definition is needed.)
7. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
8. the study of the effects upon each other of environment and race. — anthroposociologic, anthroposociological, adj.
   adj
9. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
10. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
11. the study of an individual organism, or the species regarded collectively, in relation to environment. — autecologic, autecological, adj.
    adj
12. third-person singular imperative
13. The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
14. the study of the interrelation of plants and animals in their common environment. — bioecologist, n.
    n
15. 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.
16. ecology, Also bionomy. — bionomist, n. — bionomic, bionomical, adj.
    n
17. The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
18. ergonomics.
19. the transplanting of a plant to a new environment.
20. destruction of the environment.
21. any area or region regarded as a unit for ecological observation and study of the interrelationships between organisms and their environment.

Equivalents

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.”

“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.”

“That program⟳ uses the Microsoft Windows environment.”

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