different between environment vs infauna

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?va???(n)m?nt/, /?n?va??(n)m?nt/, /-m?nt/, /?n?-/

Noun

environment (plural environments)

1. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
2. The natural world or ecosystem.
3. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
4. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
5. (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

6. (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.
7. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

Synonyms

• umbworld

Derived terms

Related terms

• environ
• environmentalist
• environmentalism

Translations

References

• 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.

English

Noun

infauna (plural infaunas or infauna or infaunae)

1. Any aquatic organism that lives within the dominant medium of its environment, but especially within aquatic sediments

   Burrowing bivalves are infauna that filter-feed from within seafloor sediments.

Derived terms

• infaunal
• macroinfauna
• microinfauna