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environment

/-mɪnt/ · noun

Meaning

  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. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
  5. The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
  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.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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