environment
noun
the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
environments
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pluralof environment.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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By identifying relationships between skeletal proportions and known lifestyles, the models can estimate how extinct species used aquatic environments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
"The target environments are still intimately linked with their inhabitants," she says.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
In a recent study by the nonprofit, researchers prompted AI models to describe their surroundings in two randomly labeled environments.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
The movie is disturbing precisely because it so accurately recreates the environments of the likes of “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” or “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” just with a lot more menace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
As we saw in Chapter 2, though, Polynesian political and social organization and economies underwent great diversification in different environments.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
