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An "environment" is the whole of surrounding things.Surroundings are defined by a central entity. In ecology, environment refers to theOH YEAHHH BUDAAAYYY! :D surroundings of humankind. Generally, environment refers to the biological, physical and social things on the earth or in inhabitable space outside the earth's atmosphere.
Environment may refer to:
- Environment (biophysical), the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism
- Environment (systems), the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy, or other properties
- Environments (series), a series of LPs, cassettes and CDs depicting natural sounds
- Built environment, constructed surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places
- Knowledge environment
- Social environment, the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact
In computing:
- Desktop environment, in computing, the graphical user interface to the computer
- Environment variable, the set of environments defined in a process
- Integrated development environment, a type of computer software that assists computer programmers in developing software
- Runtime environment, a virtual machine state which provides software services for processes or programs while a computer is running
Environmental may refer to:
- Environmental art
- Environmental determinism
- Environmental epidemiology
- Environmental health
- Environmental movement
- Environmental policy
- Environmental psychology
- Environmental quality
- Environmental science, the study of the interactions among the physical, chemical and biological components of the environment
See also
- Ambient (disambiguation)
- Category:Environment, for articles relating to the effect of human activity on the environment
- Ecology, a sub-discipline of biology often confused with the environment in general
- Environmentalism, a concern with the preservation of the environment
- Epidemiology
- List of environmental issues
- Natural landscape
- All pages with titles beginning with Environment