environment

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    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.

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    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

    1. 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.
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    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.
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    3. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
    4. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
    5. (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
    6. (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.
    7. (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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    Slovak

    Pronunciation

    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

    1. environment
      Synonym: prostredie

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    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
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