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"
- In Unified Process the Environment discipline "refers to the tools and customizing the process for the project"
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
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Famous quotes containing the word environment:
“For those parents from lower-class and minority communities ... [who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.”
—Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)
“We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.”
—Viola Spolin (b. 1911)
“If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)