Environment

Last updated November 01, 2025

Environment most often refers to:

Other physical and cultural environments

Ecology, the study of the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings
Environment (systems), the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy, or other properties.
Built environment, constructed surroundings that provide the settings for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places
Social environment, the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact
Market environment, business term

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

Environment (type theory), the association between variable names and data types in type theory
Deployment environment, in software deployment, a computer system in which a computer program or software component is deployed and executed
Runtime environment, a virtual machine state which provides software services for processes or programs while a computer is running
Environment variable, a variable capable of affecting the way processes behave on a computer