environment


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environment
n. surroundings; conditions in which someone or something lives

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Environment
Environment may refer to:
  • Environment (biophysical), the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or a group of organisms
  • Environment (systems), the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy, or other properties
  • Natural environment, all living and non-living things
  • Social environment, the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact
  • Physical environment, in ecology
  • Environment (magazine)
  • Environments (album series), a series of LPs, cassettes and CDs depicting natural sounds
  • Built environment, constructed surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places
  • Knowledge environment, social practices, technological and physical arrangements intended to facilitate collaborative knowledge building, decision making, inference or discovery

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environment

Noun
1. the totality of surrounding conditions; "he longed for the comfortable environment of his livingroom"
(hypernym) situation, state of affairs
(hyponym) context, circumstance
(derivation) surround, environ, encircle, circle, round, ring
2. the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround"
(synonym) environs, surroundings, surround
(hypernym) geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
(hyponym) ambiance, ambience


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environment
n. prostředí; životní prostředí

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environment
Rzecz. otoczenie; środowisko; środowisko naturalne