environment

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Synonyms: enviroment, environments, envisionment, environnement

Antonyms: enviroment, environments, envisionment, environnement

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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. {{lb|en|computing}} The [[software]] or [[hardware]] existing on any particular [[computer]] [[system]].
6. {{lb|en|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.
7. {{lb|en|computing}} The set of [[variable]]s and their [[value]]s in a [[namespace]] that an [[operating system]] associates with a [[process]].

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