Environment

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The totality of the natural world, often excluding humans.
  • noun. A subset of the natural world; an ecosystem.
  • noun. The combination of external physical conditions that affect and influence the growth, development, behavior, and survival of organisms.
  • noun. The complex of social and cultural conditions affecting the nature of an individual person or community.
  • noun. The general set of conditions or circumstances.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The entire set of conditions under which one operates a computer, as it relates to the hardware, operating platform, or operating system.
  • noun. An area of a computer's memory used by the operating system and some programs to store certain variables to which they need frequent access.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of environing or surrounding, or the state of being environed.
  • noun. That which environs; the aggregate of surrounding things or conditions.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Act of environing; state of being environed.
  • noun. That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
  • noun. The natural world or ecosystem.
  • noun. All the elements over which a designer has no control and that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
  • noun. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
  • noun. The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the totality of surrounding conditions
  • noun. the area in which something exists or lives
  • Word Usage
    "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*."
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