environment

English

Etymology

From Middle French environnement, equivalent to environ +‎ -ment. Compare French environnement.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɪnˈvaɪɹə(n)mənt/, /ɪnˈvaɪɚ(n)mənt/, /-mɪnt/, /ənˈ-/
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Noun

environment (plural environments)

  1. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
  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.
  3. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
  4. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
  5. (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
    That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
  6. (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.
  7. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

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References
  • environment at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • environment in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • environment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • environment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Slovak

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈenvironment]

Noun

environment m (genitive singular environmentu, nominative plural environmenty, genitive plural environmentov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. environment

Declension
Declension of environment
singular plural
nominative environment environmenty
genitive environmentu environmentov
dative environmentu environmentom
accusative environment environmenty
locative environmente environmentoch
instrumental environmentom environmentmi

Further reading
  • environment in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
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