environment
English
Etymology
From Middle FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from Middle French#ENVIRONMENTCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#ENVIRONMENT environnement. Compare French environnement. By surface analysis, environ + -mentCategory:English terms suffixed with -ment#ENVIRONMENT.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹə.mənt/, /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹən.mənt/Category:English 4-syllable words#ENVIRONMENTCategory:English 4-syllable words#ENVIRONMENTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ENVIRONMENT
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#ENVIRONMENTAudio (UK): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɚn.mənt/, /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɚ.mənt/Category:English 4-syllable words#ENVIRONMENTCategory:English 4-syllable words#ENVIRONMENTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ENVIRONMENT
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#ENVIRONMENTAudio (US): (file)
Noun
environment (plural environments)Category:English lemmas#ENVIRONMENTCategory:English nouns#ENVIRONMENTCategory:English countable nouns#ENVIRONMENTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ENVIRONMENTCategory:Pages with entries#ENVIRONMENTCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ENVIRONMENT
- The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
- 1998 September 19, Jonathan Rauch, “Tunnel Vision: The Dawn of Microgovernment”, in National Journal, archived from the original on 6 March 2012:
- What was seen from the top down, as a large environment with many difficult trade-offs, is instead seen from the bottom up--as 10 million microenvironments, each to be regulated in its own right. It is this inversion of perspective that distinguishes microgovernment from other kinds of regulation, and that accounts for its often-bizarre behavior.Category:English terms with quotations#ENVIRONMENT
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#ENVIRONMENT
- All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
- A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
- (computingCategory:en:Computing#ENVIRONMENT) The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
- That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.Category:English terms with usage examples#ENVIRONMENT
- (programmingCategory:en:Programming#ENVIRONMENT) 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.
- (computingCategory:en:Computing#ENVIRONMENT) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
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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 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.
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /envirɔnment/, (high register) [ˈenʋirɔnment], (common) [ˈeɱʋirɔnment]Category:Slovak 4-syllable words#ENVIRONMENTCategory:Slovak terms with IPA pronunciation#ENVIRONMENT
- Rhymes: -ɔnmentCategory:Rhymes:Slovak/ɔnment#ENVIRONMENTCategory:Rhymes:Slovak/ɔnment/4 syllables#ENVIRONMENT
- Hyphenation: en‧vi‧ron‧ment
Noun
environment m inan (declension pattern of dubCategory:Slovak links with redundant wikilinks#ENVIRONMENT)Category:Slovak lemmas#ENVIRONMENTCategory:Slovak nouns#ENVIRONMENTCategory:Slovak entries with incorrect language header#ENVIRONMENTCategory:Slovak masculine nouns#ENVIRONMENTCategory:Slovak inanimate nouns#ENVIRONMENTCategory:Pages with entries#ENVIRONMENTCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ENVIRONMENT
- environment
- Synonym: prostredie
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | environment | environmenty |
| genitive | environmentu | environmentov |
| dative | environmentu | environmentom |
| accusative | environment | environmenty |
| locative | environmente | environmentoch |
| instrumental | environmentom | environmentmi |
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
