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environment.

The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.

11 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹə.mənt/Received-Pronunciation/ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹən.mənt/Received-Pronunciation/ɪnˈvaɪ.ɚn.mənt/General-American/ɪnˈvaɪ.ɚ.mənt/General-American
  1. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.

  2. The natural world or ecosystem.

  3. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.

  4. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.

  5. The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

    That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
  6. 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. The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

Where this word comes from

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

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