different between environment vs environments

English

From Middle French environnement, equivalent to environ +? -ment. Compare French environnement.

environment (plural environments)

The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
The natural world or ecosystem.
All the elements 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.

environment at OneLook Dictionary Search
environment in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
environment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
environment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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