Environment

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Environment \En*vi"ron*ment\, n. [Cf. F. environnement.]
     1. Act of environing; state of being environed.
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     2. That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions,
        influences, or forces, by which living forms are


        influenced and modified in their growth and development.
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              It is no friendly environment, this of thine.
                                                    --Carlyle.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  environment
       n 1: the totality of surrounding conditions; "he longed for the
            comfortable environment of his livingroom"
       2: the area in which something exists or lives; "the
          country--the flat agricultural surround" [syn: {environs},
           {surroundings}, {surround}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "environment":
     ambience, ambient, atmosphere, backdrop, background, cincture,
     circling, circumambience, circumambiency, circumcincture,
     circumflexion, circumjacence, circumposition, circumstances,
     climate, conditions, containment, context, ecosystem, embracement,
     encincture, encirclement, enclosure, encompassment, enfoldment,
     envelopment, environs, existing conditions, full particulars,
     girding, girdling, habitat, inclusion, ins and outs, involvement,
     locale, medium, milieu, mise-en-scene, set of conditions, setting,
     situation, status, status quo, surrounding, surroundings,
     territory, total situation, whole picture
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  environment
       
          {environment variable}