environment

  1. Noun.  The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
  2. Noun.  The natural world or ecosystem.
  3. Noun.  All the elements over which a designer has no control and that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
  4. Noun.  A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
  5. Noun.  (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
  6. Noun.  (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. Noun.  (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

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