Environment vs. Environmental: Know the Difference

Environment and Environmental Definitions

Environment

The totality of the natural world, often excluding humans

"Technology, of course, lies at the heart of man's relationship with the environment" (Mark Hertsgaard).

Environmental

Relating to or associated with the environment.

Environment

A subset of the natural world; an ecosystem

The coastal environment.

Environmental

Relating to or concerned with the impact of human activities on the natural environment

The environmental movement.

Environment

The combination of external physical conditions that affect and influence the growth, development, behavior, and survival of organisms

"Conditions in a lion's environment ... can drive it to hunt people" (Philip Caputo).

Environmental

Relating to potentially harmful factors originating in the environment

Environmental illness.

Environment

The complex of social and cultural conditions affecting the nature of an individual person or community.

Environmental

Pertaining to the environment.

Environment

The general set of conditions or circumstances

A terrible environment for doing business.

Environmental

(computing) Any factor relating to the physical environment in which hardware is operated, such as the room temperature or the number of racks used to hold equipment.

Environment

The entire set of conditions under which one operates a computer, as it relates to the hardware, operating platform, or operating system.

Environmental

Of or pertaining to the environment; as, environmental factors.

Environment

An area of a computer's memory used by the operating system and some programs to store certain variables to which they need frequent access.

Environmental

Of or pertaining to the environment (definition 2); as, environmental pollution; environmental disaster; environmental cleanup; environmental deterioration.

THOUSANDS of dead fish and other marine species, suffocated by a rotting, glutinous morass which spreads over kilometres of coral reefs. This scenario has all the hallmarks of a unnatural environmental disaster resulting from environmental negligence. However this isn't the case, instead the cause - coral spawn slick deoxygenation - is a natural event which has the potential to occur periodically on the reefs of the West Pilbara.

Environment

The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.

Environmental

Concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment;

Environmental pollution

Environment

The natural world or ecosystem.

Environmental

Of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings;

Environmental factors

Environment

All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.

Environment

A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.

Environment

(computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.

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.

Environment

(computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

Environment

Act of environing; state of being environed.

Environment

That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.

It is no friendly environment, this of thine.