Environment

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Technology

GIS

Environmental resources, protection, and conservation. For example, resources describing pollution, waste storage and treatment, environmental impact assessment, water features, and drainage systems.

A set of parameters defining various display, editing, and data manipulation conditions that remain active during a session until explicitly changed by the user. For example, the drawing environment in ARCEDIT might be 'arcs on, labels off, annotation.streets on'.

  • City of High Point, NC — GIS Glossary retrieved 2014-05-27

Science

Energy

Science› Energy

Renewable Energy

The external conditions that affect organisms and influence their development and survival.

Science

Water

All biological, chemical, social, and physical factors to which organisms are exposed. The surroundings that affect the growth and development of an organism.

Science› Weather

Climate Change

All external conditions that affect an organism or other specified system during its lifetime.

Technology› Programming

Perl

The collective set of environment variables your "process" inherits from its parent. Accessed via %ENV.

Technology

Security

Aggregate of external procedures, conditions, and objects affecting the development, operation, and maintenance of an information system.

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