Environment vs. Context — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Environment and Context
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Environment
The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates
Survival in an often hostile environment
Context
The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning.
Environment
The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity
The impact of pesticides on the environment
A parliamentary environment committee
Context
The circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting.
Environment
The totality of the natural world, often excluding humans
"Technology, of course, lies at the heart of man's relationship with the environment" (Mark Hertsgaard).
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Context
The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
In what context did your attack on him happen? - We had a pretty tense relationship at the time, and when he insulted me I snapped.
Environment
A subset of the natural world; an ecosystem
The coastal environment.
Context
(linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
Without any context, I can't tell you if the "dish" refers to the food, or the thing you eat it on.
Environment
The combination of external physical conditions that affect and influence the growth, development, behavior, and survival of organisms
"Conditions in a lion's environment ... can drive it to hunt people" (Philip Caputo).
Context
(archaeology) The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.
Environment
The complex of social and cultural conditions affecting the nature of an individual person or community.
Context
(mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
Environment
The general set of conditions or circumstances
A terrible environment for doing business.
Context
(logic) For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
Environment
The entire set of conditions under which one operates a computer, as it relates to the hardware, operating platform, or operating system.
Context
(obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
Environment
An area of a computer's memory used by the operating system and some programs to store certain variables to which they need frequent access.
Context
(obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.
Environment
The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
Context
Knit or woven together; close; firm.
The coats, without, are context and callous.
Environment
The natural world or ecosystem.
Context
The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning.
According to all the light that the contexts afford.
Environment
All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
Context
To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
The whole world's frame, which is contexted only by commerce and contracts.
Environment
A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
Context
Discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation
Environment
(computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
Context
The set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event;
The historical context
Environment
(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.
Environment
(computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
Environment
Act of environing; state of being environed.
Environment
That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.
It is no friendly environment, this of thine.
Environment
The totality of surrounding conditions;
He longed for the comfortable environment of his livingroom
Environment
The area in which something exists or lives;
The country--the flat agricultural surround
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