Environment

• 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"
• In thermodynamics, a thermodynamic system, originally called a working substance, is defined as that part of the universe that is under ...
• Environment variables are a set of dynamic values that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer.
• The social environment (context), also known as the milieu, is the identical or similar social positions and social roles as a whole that influence the individuals of a group. ...
• In ecology, a niche (pronounced "nich," "neesh" or "nish") is a term describing the relational position of a species or population in its ecosystem. A shorthand definition is that a niche is how an organism makes a living. ...
• The environment, in the biophysical context, is the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism. ...
• The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, is a terminology that comprises all living and non-living things that ...
• The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest; The natural world or ecosystem; All the elements over which a designer has no control and that affect a system or its inputs and outputs; A particular political or social setting, arena or condition; The software and/or ...
• The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process
• environmental - of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings; "environmental factors"
• environmental - concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment; "environmental pollution"
• Environments is the first part in a series of planned releases by The Future Sound of London. It is more of an audio journey in two large parts ...
• environmental - pertaining to one's environment
• The nongenetic conditions and circumstances that affect a person's conduct and health.
• The sum of all external conditions affecting the life, development, and survival of an organism.
• The existing condition of the surroundings that results from a combination of climate, soil, topography, and other plants and animals. An organism's environment influences its form and survival.
• The total of the surroundings (air, water, soil, vegetation, people, wildlife) influencing each living beings existence, including physical, biological and all other factors; the surroundings of a plant or animals including other plants or animals, climate and location.
• All components of the earth, including air, land, and water; all layers of the atmosphere; all organic and inorganic matter and living organisms; and interacting natural systems.
• all of the surroundings and conditions that affect the growth and development of living things
• Surroundings in which an organization operates, including air, water, land, natural resources, flora, fauna, humans and their interrelation.
• Physical and interpersonal surroundings that can affect mood and behaviors in people with dementia.
• The conditions under which an organism lives.
• an organisms surroundings; the environment includes such factors as temperature, amount of moisture, slope or gradient, sunlight, chemicals, and sounds; organisms have an internal environment too that includes such factors as nutrients and body temperature
• The physical surroundings, conditions, circumstances etc. in which something operates.
• everything that surrounds us
• A series of browser lookup tables and control variables that specify the set of classes and inter-class relationships with which the browser works.
• All of the external factors, conditions, and influences that affect an organism or a community.
• the physical, cultural, and social conditions surrounding and affecting any organism
• the sum of the living and non-living surroundings of an individual living thing.
• A term used in this module to encompass geography, climate and physical surroundings, together with social circumstances, housing, diet, culture, politics, legislation, technology, religion, science, the media and so on in fact, anything that could be considered as having an influence on health.
• includes water, air, and land and the interrelationship that exists among and between water, air, and land and all living things.
• Given the fact that the conservation of the natural environment is a key element of rural tourism, environmental conservation and protection are ...
• The context in which development takes place, including physical properties of stimuli.
• The context within which a system exists. It is composed of all things that are external to the system, and it includes everything that may affect the system, and may be affected by it at any given time.
• The environment of a system is that part of the universe that is in communication with the system, but is not part of the system. [Walter Fritz, Intelligent Systems and Their Societies]
• our surroundings, particularly the natural world of the land, sea and air, and the animals that live around us.
• The physical and biological surroundings (plant, animal, climate, and inorganic resources) that influence social groups and their cultural ...
• the sum total of everything that surrounds an organism, both biological environment and physio-chemical environment.

Definitions are extracted from Google on 14/02/2009 7:25:26 PM