ALL meanings of environment
- abbreviation Technical meaning of ENVIRONMENT environment variable 3
- noun environment The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. 1
- noun Technical meaning of environment (programming, operating system) A variable that is bound in the current environment. When evaluating an expression in some environment, the evaluation of a variable consists of looking up its name in the environment and substituting its value. Most programming languages have some concept of an environment but in Unix shell scripts it has a specific meaning slightly different from other contexts. In shell scripts, environment variables are one kind of shell variable. They differ from local variables and command line arguments in that they are inheritted by a child process. Examples are the PATH variable that tells the shell the file system paths to search to find command executables and the TZ variable which contains the local time zone. The variable called "SHELL" specifies the type of shell being used. These variables are used by commands or shell scripts to discover things about the environment they are operating in. Environment variables can be changed or created by the user or a program. To see a list of environment variables type "setenv" at the csh or tcsh prompt or "set" at the sh, bash, jsh or ksh prompt. In other programming languages, e.g. functional programming languages, the environment is extended with new bindings when a function's parameters are bound to its actual arguments or when new variables are declared. In a block-structured procedural language, the environment usually consists of a linked list of activation records. 1
- noun environment the natural world 1
- noun environment a local subsection of the natural world 1
- noun environment physical surroundings 1
- noun environment personal circumstances 1
- variable noun environment Someone's environment is all the circumstances, people, things, and events around them that influence their life. 0
- countable noun environment Your environment consists of the particular natural surroundings in which you live or exist, considered in relation to their physical characteristics or weather conditions. 0
- singular noun environment The environment is the natural world of land, sea, air, plants, and animals. 0
- noun environment external conditions or surroundings, esp those in which people live or work 0
- noun environment the external surroundings in which a plant or animal lives, which tend to influence its development and behaviour 0
- noun environment the state of being environed; encirclement 0
- noun environment an operating system, program, or integrated suite of programs that provides all the facilities necessary for a particular application 0
- noun environment a surrounding or being surrounded 0
- noun environment something that surrounds; surroundings 0
- noun environment all the conditions, circumstances, and influences surrounding, and affecting the development of, an organism or group of organisms 0
- noun environment all of the conditions, circumstances, etc. that surround and influence life on earth, including atmospheric conditions, food chains, and the water cycle 0