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The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
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The natural world or ecosystem.
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All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
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A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
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The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
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That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
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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.
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The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.