environment : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: environment	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for environment
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
environment n the totality of surrounding conditions; "he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room" the area in which something exists or lives; "the country-- the flat agricultural surround" Synonym(s): environment, environs, surroundings, surround
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Environment \Envi"ronment\, n. [Cf. F. environnement.] 1. Act of environing; state of being environed. 2. That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development. It is no friendly environment, this of thine. --Carlyle.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
environment {environment variable}