Environment
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In general, environment refers to the surroundings of an object, or the Natural environment, all living and non-living things that occur naturally on Earth
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
- In Functional programming, the environment is "a function which maps variable names on to their values" [1]
- In Unified Process the Environment discipline "refers to the tools and customizing the process for the project" [2]
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
- Other
- Environment (film), a 1917 silent film
[edit] 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 beginning with "Environment"
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- ^ Jones, Simon L. Peyton (1987). [http:http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/slpj-book-1987/PAGES/029.HTM The implementation of functional programming languages]. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall International. p. 29. ISBN 0-13-453333-X. http:http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/slpj-book-1987/PAGES/029.HTM.
- ^ Larman, Craig (2005). Applying UML and patterns: an introduction to object-oriented analysis and design and iterative development (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall PTR. p. 34. ISBN 0-13-148906-2.
