Look up: environment

1. environment
   The place in which an organism lives, and the circumstances under which it lives. Environment includes measures like moisture and temperature, as much as it refers to the actual physical place where an organism is found.
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2. Environment
   the totality of physical, chemical, and biotic conditions surrounding an organism
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3. Environment
   All external, or non-genetic, conditions that influence the reproduction, production and carcass merit of cattle.
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4. Environment
   If that which is under study is a system, then the rest of the world is the environment.
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5. Environment
   The aggregate of external circumstances, conditions and events that affect the development, operation and maintenance of a system.
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6. Environment
   The sum of all external conditions affecting the life, development and survival of an organism.
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7. environment
   The sum of all external conditions affecting the life, development, and survival of an organism.
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8. Environment
   The physical surroundings in which people live.
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9. Environment
   The external conditions (biotic and abiotic) that may act on soils or organisms to influence their development, which includes sunlight, temperature, moisture and other organisms.
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10. environment
    [Noun] Everything around us that affects the way we live.
    Example: Mark's working environment was causing him health problems.
    See also: environmental
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11. Environment
    the air, land, water, plants and wildlife
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12. Environment
    The land, water, air, plants and wildlife.
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13. Environment
    describes the surroundings in which organisms live. Some physical features of an environment are fairly stable, like trees, rivers, mountains, houses, soil, teeth. Some physical features are changeable, like wind, water, light, pH, food supply. Others features are less predictable, such as the balan...
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14. environment
    [n] - the totality of surrounding conditions 2. [n] - the area in which something exists or lives
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15. Environment
    All or any of the following media, namely, air, water and land; and one medium of air includes air within buildings and the air within other natural or man made structures above or below the ground (Environmental Protection Act).
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16. Environment
    A combination of the various physical and biological elements that affect the life of an organism. Although it is common to refer to ‘the` environment, there are in fact many environments eg, aquatic or terrestrial, microscopic to global, all capable of change in time and place, but all intimately linked and in combination constituting the whole earth/atmosphere system.
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17. Environment
    is the “surroundings in which an organisation operates, including air, water, land, natural resources, flora, fauna, humans and their interrelation. Surroundings in this context extend from within the organisation to the global system. (ISO 14001: 1996 definition 3.2)
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18. environment
    All of the surroundings and conditions that affect living things, including air, water, land, natural resources, flora, fauna, humans and their interrelation
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19. environment
    The surroundings or conditions (physical, chemical, mechanical) in which a material exists.
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20. Environment
    The external context in which our behaviour takes place. Our environment is that which we perceive as being 'outside' of us. It is not part of our behaviour but is rather something we must react to.
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21. Environment
    A combination of the various physical and biological elements that affect the life of an organism. Although it is common to refer to ‘the` environment, there are in fact many environments eg, aquatic or terrestrial, microscopic to global, all capable of change in time and place, but all intima...
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22. environment
    The surrounding conditions in which an assembly exists and functions, including temperature, humidity, altitude, vibration, shock, etc.
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23. Environment
    Environment: The sum of the total of the elements, factors and conditions in the surroundings which may have an impact on the development, action or survival of an organism or group of organisms. The environment is as opposed to genetics. We are the product of our genetic inheritance and our environ...
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24. environment
    a) the physical conditions surrounding a computer installation including heat, pressure, pollution, vibration; b) the elements (physical, organisational, personal, political) which influence the design and operation of a system; c) the mode of operation of a computer, e.g. a multiprogramming environ...
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25. Environment
    The sum of all external conditions affecting the life, development and survival of an organism.
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