Environment

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
• Natural 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 variables, the dynamic set of variables 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

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"

1. ^ Jones, Simon L. Peyton (1987). The implementation of functional programming languages. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall International. p. 29. ISBN 0-13-453333-X.
2. ^ 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.