ENVIRONMENT

Environment

The biophysical environment is the biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development and evolution. The term environment can refer to different concepts, but is often used as a short form for the biophysical environment. This practice is common, for instance, among governments which entitle agencies dealing with the biophysical environment with denominations such as Environment agency. Whereas the expression "the environment" is often used to refer to the global environment, usually in relation to humanity, the number of biophysical environments is ...

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environment

Noun

  1. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
  2. The natural world or ecosystem.
  3. All the elements over which a designer has no control and 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.
  7. The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.


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