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Environment vs Facilities - What's the difference?

environment | facilities |

As nouns the difference between environment and facilities

is that environment is the surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest while facilities is plural of lang=en.

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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  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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 .}}
  • 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)

    facilities

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • something that facilitates, or makes possible an action or process
  • something created to fulfil a particular function
  • a restroom or toilet