What is the difference between environ and environment?
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To surround; to encircle.
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* Shakespeare
* John Donne
The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
The natural world or ecosystem.
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A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
(computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
(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.
(computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
Environment is a related term of environ.
As a verb environ
is to surround; to encircle.As a noun environment is
the surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.environ
English
Verb
(en verb)- I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs
- By the known rules of antient libertie,
- When strait a barbarous noise environs me
- Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs.
- Dwelling in a pleasant glade, / With mountains round about environed .
- Environed he was with many foes.
- Environ me with darkness whilst I write.
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English
Noun
(en noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment .}}