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.
(computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
(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.