Environment definitions:Source:
Macintosh Dictionary:
Meaning 1: the surroundings or conditions in which a person,animal or plant lives or operates. e.g a field or a city district etc.
Alternate meaning 1: the setting or condition in which a particular activity is carried on. e.g a place that sets a condition for human activity.
Alternate Meaning 2: Computing the overall structure within which a user,computer or program operates. e.g programming etc.
Alternate Meaning 3: the natural world, as a whole or in a a particular geographical area especially as affected by human activity.
e.g mother earth
Source:
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment
Meaning 1: a Built Environment in which it is constructed to provide setting for human activity.Like the world we now live in
Alternate Meaning 1: a Natural Environment is constructed in which all living and non-living occur on Earth.It can also interpreted as something living and non-living things share.
Alternate Meaning 2: a Social Environment is the culture that an individual lives in and the people and institutions with whom they interact it can also be in where communications take place
Alternate Meaning 3: it can also be a Desktop Environment which relates to computing and it is a graphical user interface to the computer
Like user friendly interface so on..
Source:
The Free Dictionary:
www.thefreedictionary.com/environment
Meaning 1: it is the circumstances or conditions that surround one e.g objects living things etc.
Alternate Meaning 1: the totality of circumstances surrounding an organism or group of organism. Its like a sum up of all living things and non-living things
Alternate Meaning 2: in computer science, it relates to an entire set of conditions under which one operates a computer as it relates to the hardware, operating hardware operating platform or operating system
In conclusion,
My opinion of Environment is:
Built Environment: A setting in which all living or non-living things share.
Natural Environment: A sum up of all living things and non-living things in existence
Computer Science: A graphical user interface in which its entire set of conditions operates as one to form hardware, software operating platform of operating system
Last but not least, Environment can relate to many types of environment on earth and it exists in different meanings.
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