English word environment comes from Middle French (ca. 1400-1600) environnement
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| environnement | Middle French (ca. 1400-1600) (frm) | |
| environment | English (en) | (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.. (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.. A particular [...] |