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environment

noun
/ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹə.mənt/UK/ɪnˈvaɪ.ɚn.mənt/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle French environnementbor. English environment From Middle French environnement. Compare French environnement. By surface analysis, environ + -ment.

  1. borrowed from environnement

Definitions

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

  2. The natural world or ecosystem.

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

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.

    2. The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

      • That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.

    3. The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of…

      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.

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

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

The neighborhood

Derived

agroenvironment, antienvironment, bioenvironment, cryoenvironment, cyberenvironment, ecoenvironment, environmetrics, geoenvironment, hydroenvironment, macroenvironment, microenvironment, multienvironment, nanoenvironment, paleoenvironment, photoenvironment, socioenvironment, subenvironment, environmentability, environmental, environmentology

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at environment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01environment02inputs03input04advice05information06knowledge07awareness08aware09difficulty

A definitional loop anchored at environment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at environment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA