environment

noun7

1. •
   The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
2. •
   nature on the earth as a whole, with every living thing and the places where they live
3. •
   All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
4. •
   A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
5. •
   The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

   • That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
6. •
   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.
7. •
   The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.