environments

noun

The natural world or ecosystem.

The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.

All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.

A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.

(computing) The software 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.

(computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

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