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Environment vs Autotoxicity - What's the difference?

environment | autotoxicity |

As nouns the difference between environment and autotoxicity

is that environment is the surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest while autotoxicity is self-destruction of a species through the production of chemicals that escape into the environment and directly inhibit the growth of that species.

environment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
  • The natural world or ecosystem.
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  • All the elements over which a designer has no control and that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * (l)

    autotoxicity

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun) (wikipedia autotoxicity)
  • Self-destruction of a species through the production of chemicals that escape into the environment and directly inhibit the growth of that species.