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Surrounding vs. Environment — What's the Difference?

Surrounding vs. Environment — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Surrounding and Environment

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Surrounding

To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
The magnetic field that surrounds the earth.

Environment

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates
Survival in an often hostile environment

Surrounding

To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication
The police surrounded the house.

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

Surrounding

Something, such as fencing or a border, that surrounds
A fireplace surround.
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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).

Surrounding

The area around a thing or place
Inflammation extending to the surround of the eye.

Environment

A subset of the natural world; an ecosystem
The coastal environment.

Surrounding

Often surrounds Surroundings; environment
"It was the country, the flat agricultural surround, that so ravished me" (Listener).

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).

Surrounding

A method of hunting wild animals by surrounding them and driving them to a place from which they cannot escape.

Environment

The complex of social and cultural conditions affecting the nature of an individual person or community.

Surrounding

Present participle of surround

Environment

The general set of conditions or circumstances
A terrible environment for doing business.

Surrounding

An outlying area; area in proximity to something

Environment

The entire set of conditions under which one operates a computer, as it relates to the hardware, operating platform, or operating system.

Surrounding

An environment

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.

Surrounding

Which surrounds something

Environment

The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.

Surrounding

Inclosing; encircling.

Environment

The natural world or ecosystem.

Surrounding

An encompassing.

Environment

All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.

Surrounding

The things which surround or environ; external or attending circumstances or conditions.

Environment

A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.

Surrounding

Closely encircling;
Encompassing mountain ranges
The surrounding countryside

Environment

(computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.

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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