Definition of enviorment
1. environment [ n ] the totality of surrounding conditions
Examples:
"he longed for the comfortable environment of his livingroom"
(High Fidelity, 11:10...)
Some of them are obvious , such as the fact that we associate recorded and live music with our responses and behavior in different types of environments and social settings .
(Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)
As cells coalesced into organisms , they built new `` unnatural '' and internally controlled environments to cope even more successfully with the entropy increasing properties of the external world .
But it has been during the last two centuries , during the scientific revolution , that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides .
The major effect of these advances appears to lie_in the part they have played in the industrial_revolution and in the tools which scientific understanding has given us to build and manipulate a more protective environment .
(Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)
It is sufficiently small compared with the surface temperature of the anode holder , to make the energy flux radiated from the environment toward the anode holder negligible within the accuracy of the present measurements .
Synonyms environment Related Terms situation sphere home context milieu setting street ecology surround2. environment [ n ] the area in which something exists or lives
Examples: : "the country--the flat agricultural surround"
(Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)
The useful suggestion of Professor_David_Hawkins which considers culture as a third stage in biological evolution fits quite beautifully then with our suggestion that science has provided us with a rather successful technique for building protective artificial environments .
Synonyms environment surroundings environs surround Related Terms geographical_area setting medium parts habitat melting_pot element ambiance surround wallSimilar Spelling
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