environments

/IH0 N V AY1 R AH0 N M AH0 N T S/
noun
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    The natural world or ecosystem.

  3. 3

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

  4. 4

    A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.

  5. 5

    The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

    โ€œThat program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.โ€

  6. 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. 7

    The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

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Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/environment, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/environments