Environment
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Environment most often refers to:
- Natural environment/Biophysical environment, referring respectively to all living and non-living things occurring naturally and the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or a group of organisms
Other physical and cultural environments
- Ecology, the branch of ethology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings
- Environment (systems), the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy, or other properties.
- Built environment, constructed surroundings that provide the settings for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places
- Social environment, the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact
- Market environment, business term
Arts, entertainment and publishing
- Environment (magazine), a peer-reviewed, popular environmental science publication founded in 1958
- Environment (1917 film), 1917 American silent film
- Environment (1922 film), 1922 American silent film
- Environment (1927 film), 1927 Australian silent film
- Environments (album series), a series of LPs, cassettes and CDs depicting natural sounds
- Environments (album), a 2007 album by The Future Sound of London
- "Environment", a song by Dave from Psychodrama
- Environments (journal), a scientific journal
In computing
- Environment (type theory), the association between variable names and data types in type theory
- Deployment environment, in software deployment, a computer system in which a computer program or software component is deployed and executed
- Runtime environment, a virtual machine state which provides software services for processes or programs while a computer is running
- Environment variable, a variable capable of affecting the way processes behave on a computer
See also
- Environmentalism, a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection
- Environmental disease
- Environmental health
- Environmental science
- Environmental history of the United States
- Environmental Issues are disruptions in the usual function of ecosystems.
Topics referred to by the same term
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