The totality of living organisms and their environment.
The part of the Earth and its atmosphere capable of supporting life.
The natural world or ecosystem.
The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
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.
The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.