environment

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

• (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvaɪɹə(n)mənt/, /ɪnˈvajəmənt/, /ənˈ-/, /-mɪnt/
• (rhotic) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvaɪɚ(n)mənt/
• (Indic, spelling pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈenviɾɒnmenʈ/

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environment (plural environments)

1. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
2. The natural world or ecosystem.
   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     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.

3. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
4. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
5. (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

   That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.

6. (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. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

• “environment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• environment in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “environment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “environment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): [ˈenvirɔnment]

environment m inan (declension pattern of dub)

1. environment

   Synonym: prostredie

• environmentálny (adjective)

• “environment”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025