environments

noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

   The natural world or ecosystem.

3. 3

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

4. 4

   A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.

5. 5

   The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

   “That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.”

6. 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. 7

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