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Word: environment (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • All the elements over which a designer has no control and that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
  • A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
  • computing The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
  • 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.
  • The natural world or ecosystem.
  • The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.

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Proper noun:

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

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