- the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
- the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism at any time.
- the social and cultural forces that shape the life of a person or a population.
- the hardware or software configuration, or the mode of operation, of a computer system: In a time-sharing environment, transactions are processed as they occur.
- an indoor or outdoor setting characterized by the presence of environmental art that is designed specifically to make use of that site.
- external conditions or surroundings, esp those in which people live or work
- the external surroundings in which a plant or animal lives, which tend to influence its development and behaviour
- the state of being environed; encirclement
- an operating system, program, or integrated suite of programs that provides all the facilities necessary for a particular application
