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Environment

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Environment most often refers to:

  • Natural environment, all living and non-living things occurring naturally
  • Biophysical environment, the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or a group of organisms

Other physical and cultural environments

  • Ecology, the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings
  • Environment (systems), the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy, or other properties
  • Built environment, constructed surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places
  • Social environment, the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact
  • Market environment, business term

In arts and entertainment

  • Environment (magazine), a peer-reviewed, popular environmental science publication founded in 1958
  • Environment (1917 film), 1917 American silent film
  • Environment (1927 film), 1927 Australian silent film
  • Environments (album series), a series of LPs, cassettes and CDs depicting natural sounds
  • Environments (album), a 2007 album by The Future Sound of London
  • "Environment", a song by Dave from Psychodrama

In computing

  • Environment (type theory), the association between variables names and data types in type theory
  • Deployment environment, in software deployment, a computer system in which a computer program or software component is deployed and executed
  • Runtime environment, a virtual machine state which provides software services for processes or programs while a computer is running

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