environment
the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
Ecology. the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism at any time.
the social and cultural forces that shape the life of a person or a population.
Computers. the hardware or software configuration, or the mode of operation, of a computer system: In a time-sharing environment, transactions are processed as they occur.
an indoor or outdoor setting characterized by the presence of environmental art that is designed specifically to make use of that site.
Origin of environment
1synonym study For environment
Other words for environment
Other words from environment
- en·vi·ron·men·tal [en-vahy-ruhn-muhn-tl, -vahy-ern-], /ɛnˌvaɪ rənˈmən tl, -ˌvaɪ ərn-/, adjective
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How to use environment in a sentence
It learns each device’s unique behavior, the quirks of its operational environment and how it interacts with other devices to prevent malicious and abnormal usage while providing analytics to boost performance.
Perigee infrastructure security solution from former NSA employee moves into public beta | Ron Miller | September 17, 2020 | TechCrunchIf you’re treading water in the old environment, you’re really going to struggle in the new.
‘We’re about hiring journalists’: Insider Inc. launches third global news hub in Singapore | Lucinda Southern | September 17, 2020 | DigidayFor separators, this is an extraordinary difficult environment to live in.
‘Integrators’ and ‘separators’: How managers are helping the two types of remote workers survive the pandemic | Jen Wieczner | September 16, 2020 | FortuneOther names have surfaced to capture how we’re remaking our environment.
Dawn of the Heliocene - Issue 90: Something Green | Summer Praetorius | September 16, 2020 | NautilusOne pitched by NASA scientists, called Long-Lived In-situ Solar System Exploration, calls for building electronics and hardware that can withstand Venus’s punishing environment for up to 60 days.
We need to go to Venus as soon as possible | Neel Patel | September 16, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
Genetics alone does not an eating disorder make, generally speaking, and Bulik points out that environment still plays a role.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models | Carrie Arnold | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd in an environment where time is money, hooking up with an escort just might be the sensible thing to do.
Career-Minded Women Turn to Male Escorts For No-Strings Fun and (Maybe) Sex | Aurora Snow | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThis does not reflect lack of interest in a better environment.
Are you more pessimistic about the overall public education crisis given this current environment?
An expert in education talks about race relations, the political environment and what can be done to improve things.
But for the most part even industry and endowment were powerless against the inertia of custom and the dead-weight of environment.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThe vision itself is an outcome of that divine discontent which raises man above his environment.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThe human race, if favored by environment, can easily double itself every twenty-five years.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThis was his native habitat, an environment precisely suited to his peculiar talent.
The Eve of the Revolution | Carl Beckerenvironment modifies his nature: environment consists of the operation of forces external to his nature.
God and my Neighbour | Robert Blatchford
British Dictionary definitions for environment
/ (ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt) /
external conditions or surroundings, esp those in which people live or work
ecology the external surroundings in which a plant or animal lives, which tend to influence its development and behaviour
the state of being environed; encirclement
computing an operating system, program, or integrated suite of programs that provides all the facilities necessary for a particular application: a word-processing environment
Derived forms of environment
- environmental, adjective
- environmentally, adverb
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Scientific definitions for environment
[ ĕn-vī′rən-mənt ]
All of the biotic and abiotic factors that act on an organism, population, or ecological community and influence its survival and development. Biotic factors include the organisms themselves, their food, and their interactions. Abiotic factors include such items as sunlight, soil, air, water, climate, and pollution. Organisms respond to changes in their environment by evolutionary adaptations in form and behavior.
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