Environment vs. Nature

Environment vs. Nature — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Environment and Nature

Environmentnoun

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

Naturenoun

(uncountable) The natural world; that which consists of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production, and design. E.G. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.

Nature never lies (i.e. tells untruths).

Environmentnoun

The natural world or ecosystem.

Naturenoun

The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended.

Environmentnoun

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

Naturenoun

The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe.

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Environmentnoun

A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.

Naturenoun

Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artificial, or forced, or remote from actual experience.

Environmentnoun

(computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.

Naturenoun

Kind, sort; character; quality.

Environmentnoun

(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.

Naturenoun

(obsolete) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.

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Environmentnoun

(computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

Naturenoun

(obsolete) Natural affection or reverence.

Environmentnoun

the totality of surrounding conditions;

he longed for the comfortable environment of his livingroom

Natureverb

(obsolete) To endow with natural qualities.

Environmentnoun

the area in which something exists or lives;

the country--the flat agricultural surround

Naturenoun

the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized;

it is the nature of fire to burnthe true nature of jealousy

Naturenoun

a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe;

the laws of naturenature has seen to it that men are stronger than women

Naturenoun

the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.;

they tried to preserve nature as they found it

Naturenoun

the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions;

it is his nature to help others

Naturenoun

a particular type of thing;

problems of this type are very difficult to solvehe's interested in trains and things of that naturematters of a personal nature