gen The aggregate of all the conditions and influences including physical location and operating characteristics of surrounding equipment and occupants, including temperature, humidity, and contaminants or surrounding air; operational procedures, acceleration, shock, vibration, and radiation [MIL-HDBK-1908B]
Sum of all external conditions affecting the life, development, and survival of an organism
A global context in which to access data; associated with the environment is any information that is global in nature, such as a list of all connections in that environment
Surroundings in which an organization operates, including air, water, land, natural resources, flora, fauna, humans, and their interrelations This definition extends the view from a company focus to the global system
A set of parameters defining various display, editing, and data manipulation conditions that remain active during a session until explicitly changed by the user For example, the drawing environment in ARCEDIT might be 'arcs on, labels off, annotation streets on'
A collection of strings, of the form name=val, that each program has available to it Users generally place values into the environment in order to provide information to various programs Typical examples are the environment variables HOME and PATH
The body of laws pertaining to planning, contaminated land, abandoned mines, National Parks, pollution control, conservation of natural resources, and the conservation and enhancement of the natural environment
The sum of all external conditions and influences affecting the development and survival of an organism
The sum total of all the external conditions that effect an organism, community, materail, or energy
Someone's environment is all the circumstances, people, things, and events around them that influence their life. Pupils in our schools are taught in a safe, secure environment The moral characters of men are formed not by heredity but by environment
(1) (n ) In the UNIX® system, the conditions under which a user works while using a computer A user's environment includes those characteristics that personalize the user's login and how the user is allowed to interact in specific ways with UNIX and the computer For example, the shell environment includes the shell prompt string, specifics for backspace and erase characters, and commands for sending output from the terminal to the computer (2) (n ) In personal computing, "environment" includes software, a computer, and peripheral devices
The complex set of physical, geographic, biological, social, cultural and political conditions that surround an individual or organism and that ultimately determines its form and nature of its survival
the totality of surrounding conditions; "he longed for the comfortable environment of his livingroom"
the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround" the totality of surrounding conditions; "he longed for the comfortable environment of his livingroom
n 1 a set of bindings See section Introduction to Environments 2 an environment object {"macroexpand takes an optional environment argument "}