environment

== English == === Etymology === From Middle French environnement. Compare French environnement. By surface analysis, environ +‎ -ment. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹə.mənt/, /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹən.mənt/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɚn.mənt/, /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɚ.mənt/ === Noun === environment (plural environments) The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest. The natural world or ecosystem. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition. (computing) The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system. (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. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process. ==== Synonyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Tok Pisin: envaironmen ==== Translations ==== === References === “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 Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “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. == Slovak == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /envirɔnment/, (high register) [ˈenʋirɔnment], (common) [ˈeɱʋirɔnment] Rhymes: -ɔnment Hyphenation: en‧vi‧ron‧ment === Noun === environment m inan (declension pattern of dub) environment Synonym: prostredie ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== environmentálny (adjective) === Further reading === “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, 2003–2026