environment
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environment
- /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹə.mənt/ UK
- /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹən.mənt/ UK
- /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɚn.mənt/ US
- /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɚ.mənt/ US
Where it comes from
From Middle French environnement. Compare French environnement. By surface analysis, environ + -ment.
noun environments
- The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest. 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, a
- The natural world or ecosystem. 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
- All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
- A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
- The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system. That program uses the Microsoft Windows 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.
- The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
Similar: domain, ecosystem, surrounding, umbworld
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: surroundings, surround, environs, milieu, ambiance, ambience, surrounding, ambient, set-up, medium, landscape, frame, compartment, part, half, scope
noun
Similar: domain, ecosystem, surrounding, umbworld
Translations
Every language
noun area around something
| Español | ambiente, medio, entorno |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 환경 hwan'gyeong |
| 日本語 | 環境 kankyō |
| 中文 | 環境 /环境 huánjìng |
| हिन्दी | पर्यावरण paryāvraṇ, वातावरण vātāvraṇ |
| Kiswahili | mazingira |
| Português | meio, ambiente, arredores |
| Français | environnement |
| Deutsch | Umgebung, Umwelt |
| Italiano | ambiente |
| Ελληνικά | περιβάλλον perivállon |
| Română | mediu, ambient, mediu ambiant |
| Русский | среда́ sredá, окружа́ющая среда́ okružájuščaja sredá, окруже́ние okružénije |
| Tiếng Việt | môi trường |
| العربية | بِيئَة bīʔa, مُحِيط muḥīṭ |
| עברית | סְבִיבָה s'vivá |
noun natural world or ecosystem
| Español | medioambiente, medio ambiente, naturaleza, ecosistema |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 환경 hwan'gyeong |
| 日本語 | 環境 kankyō |
| 中文 | 環境 /环境 huánjìng |
| हिन्दी | पर्यावरण paryāvraṇ, प्राकृतिक पर्यावरण prākŕtik paryāvraṇ, वातावरण vātāvraṇ |
| Português | meio ambiente |
| Français | environnement |
| Deutsch | Umwelt |
| Italiano | ambiente |
| Ελληνικά | περιβάλλον perivállon |
| Română | ecosistem, mediu ambiant |
| Русский | окружа́ющая среда́ okružájuščaja sredá, экосисте́ма ekosistéma |
| Tiếng Việt | môi trường, môi sinh, môi trường sống |
| العربية | بِيئَة bīʔa |
| עברית | סְבִיבָה s'vivá |
noun political or social setting, arena or condition
| Español | ambiente, clima |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 환경 hwan'gyeong |
| 日本語 | 環境 kankyō |
| Português | ambiente |
| Deutsch | Umfeld |
| Italiano | ambiente |
| Ελληνικά | περιβάλλον perivállon |
| Română | ambient, mediu, climat, ambianță |
| Русский | среда́ sredá, окруже́ние okružénije, обстано́вка obstanóvka |
noun software or hardware on a computer
| Español | sistema operativo, programa, medio, entorno |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 환경 hwan'gyeong |
| 日本語 | 環境 kankyō |
| 中文 | 環境 /环境 huánjìng |
| Português | ambiente |
| Deutsch | Umgebung |
| Italiano | ambiente |
| Ελληνικά | περιβάλλον perivállon |
| Română | mediu, sistem de operare |
| Русский | конфигура́ция konfigurácija, среда́ sredá, окруже́ние okružénije |
Talk about this word "environment." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/environment. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. environment. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/environment "environment." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/environment.Cite this
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title = {environment},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/environment},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
