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environment
has definitions from the field of geography
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[ noun ] the totality of surrounding conditions
Examples "he longed for the comfortable environment of his livingroom" Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)Some of them are obvious , such as the fact that we associate recorded and live music with our responses and behavior in different types of environments and social settings . (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)As cells coalesced into organisms , they built new `` unnatural '' and internally controlled environments to cope even more successfully with the entropy increasing properties of the external world . But it has been during the last two centuries , during the scientific revolution , that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides . The major effect of these advances appears to lie_in the part they have played in the industrial_revolution and in the tools which scientific understanding has given us to build and manipulate a more protective environment . (Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)It is sufficiently small compared with the surface temperature of the anode holder , to make the energy flux radiated from the environment toward the anode holder negligible within the accuracy of the present measurements . |
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[ noun ] (geography) the area in which something exists or lives
Synonyms Examples : "the country--the flat agricultural surround" Used in print (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)The useful suggestion of Professor_David_Hawkins which considers culture as a third stage in biological evolution fits quite beautifully then with our suggestion that science has provided us with a rather successful technique for building protective artificial environments . Related terms geographical_area setting medium parts habitat melting_pot element ambiance surround wall |
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