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Natural environment The natural environment or natural world encompasses all life, biotic and abiotic component, abiotic things occurring nature, naturally, meaning in this case not artificiality, artificial. The term is most often applied to Earth or some parts ...

, referring respectively to all living and non-living things occurring naturally and the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or a group of organisms

Other physical and cultural environments

Ecology Ecology () is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their Natural environment, environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community (ecology), community, ecosystem, and biosphere lev ...

, the branch of ethology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings *

Environment (systems) An open system is a system that has external interactions. Such interactions can take the form of information, energy, or material transfers into or out of the system boundary, depending on the discipline which defines the concept. An open syste ...

, the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy, or other properties. *

Built environment The term built environment refers to human-made conditions and is often used in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, public health, sociology, and anthropology, among others. These curated spaces provide the setting for human ac ...

, constructed surroundings that provide the settings for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places *

Social environment The social environment, social context, sociocultural context or milieu refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops. It includes the culture that the individual was educated ...

, the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact * Market environment, business term

Arts, entertainment and publishing

* ''Environment'' (magazine), a peer-reviewed, popular environmental science publication founded in 1958 * ''Environment'' (1917 film), 1917 American silent film * ''Environment'' (1922 film), 1922 American silent film * ''Environment'' (1927 film), 1927 Australian silent film * ''environments'' (album series), a series of LPs, cassettes and CDs depicting natural sounds * ''Environments'' (album), a 2007 album by The Future Sound of London *"Environment", a song by Dave from '' Psychodrama'' * ''Environments'' (journal), a scientific journal

In computing

Environment (type theory) In type theory, a typing environment (or typing context) represents the association between variable names and data types. More formally, an environment \Gamma is a set or ordered list of pairs \langle x,\tau \rangle, usually written as x:\tau, w ...

, the association between variable names and data types in type theory *

Deployment environment In software deployment, an environment or tier is a computer system or set of systems in which a computer program A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to Execution (computing), e ...

, in software deployment, a computer system in which a computer program or software component is deployed and executed *

Runtime environment In computer programming, a runtime system or runtime environment is a sub-system that exists in the computer where a program is created, as well as in the computers where the program is intended to be run. The name comes from the compile time ...

, a virtual machine state which provides software services for processes or programs while a computer is running *

Environment variable An environment variable is a user-definable value that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer. Environment variables are part of the environment in which a process runs. For example, a running process can query the va ...

, a variable capable of affecting the way processes behave on a computer

Other physical and cultural environments

Arts, entertainment and publishing

In computing

See also