Definitions for environment

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environment en·vi·ron·ment

Spelling: [en-vahy-ruh n-muh nt, -vahy-ern-]

IPA: /ɛnˈvaɪ rən mənt, -ˈvaɪ ərn-/

Environment is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 472 anagrams from letters in environment (eeimnnnortv).

Definitions for environment

noun

1. the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
2. Ecology. the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism at any time.
3. the social and cultural forces that shape the life of a person or a population.
4. Computers. the hardware or software configuration, or the mode of operation, of a computer system:
5. an indoor or outdoor setting that is characterized by the presence of environmental art that is itself designed to be site-specific.

Origin of environment

First recorded in 1595-1605; environ + -ment

Examples for environment

And in an environment where time is money, hooking up with an escort just might be the sensible thing to do.

He will not so long correspond with an environment even so unexacting as this.

Certain faculties develop in response to the pressure of environment.

So that time, and growing up in that environment, connected me to those films.

Genetics alone does not an eating disorder make, generally speaking, and Bulik points out that environment still plays a role.

A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment.

Are you more pessimistic about the overall public education crisis given this current environment?

They are as animals grown in an environment that demands no struggle of them.

They are victims of their elders' folly, of our carelessness as to their environment.

For whatever reason, I grew up watching and loving horror movies—perhaps as a reaction to the environment I was growing up in.