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Word: environment
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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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