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Environment may refer to:
- Natural environment, all living and non-living things that occur naturally on Earth
- Built environment, constructed surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places
- Environment (biophysical), the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism
- Environmental art
- Environmental determinism
- Environmental policy
- Environmental psychology
- Environmental quality
- Environmental science, the study of the interactions among the physical, chemical and biological components of the environment
- Social environment, the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact
In computing:
- Desktop environment, in computing, is graphical user interface to the computer
- Environment variable, the set of environments defined in a process
- Integrated development environment, a type of computer software that assists computer programmers in developing software
- Runtime environment, a virtual machine state which provides software services for processes or programs while a computer is running
See also
- Ambient
- Category:Environment, for articles relating to the effect of human activity on the environment
- ecology, a sub-discipline of biology often confused with the environment in general
- Environmental movement
- Environmentalism, a concern with the preservation of the environment
- List of environmental issues
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