environmentとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvaɪɹə(n)mənt/, /ɪnˈvaɪɚ(n)mənt/, /-mɪnt/, /ənˈ-/

名詞

environment (複数形 environments)

1. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
2. The natural world or ecosystem.
   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.

3. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
4. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
5. (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

   That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.

6. (programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
7. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

同意語

• umbworld

派生語

関連する語

• environ
• environmentalist
• environmentalism

参照

• environment at OneLook Dictionary Search
• environment in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• environment in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• environment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.