Definition of word Environment

1. The definition of the theme - Environment

environment noun

1 the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

• the setting or conditions in which a particular activity is carried on : a good learning environment.

• Computing the overall structure within which a user, computer, or program operates : a desktop development environment.

2 ( the environment) the natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, esp. as affected by human activity.

taken from New Oxford American Dictionary

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 over which a designer has no control and 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. That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
   
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.

Adapted from Wikitionary on jan 13 2010

(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/environment)

noun

1	the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
2	Ecology. the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism at any time.
3	the social and cultural forces that shape the life of a person or a population.
4	Computers. the hardware or software configuration, or the mode of operation, of a computer system: In a time-sharing environment, transactions are processed as they occur.
5	an indoor or outdoor setting that is characterized by the presence of environmental art that is itself designed to be site-specific.

Adapted from dictionary.com

( http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Environment)

In short, the environment is the surrounding of anything living, non living, natural or man made,indoors or outdoors a surrounding that is social or not, a surrounding that is usually uncontrollable