Definition of "environment" in English

noun

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

2. The natural world or ecosystem.

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

4. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.

5. (computing) The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

   • That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.

6. (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.

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