environments
- 1Plural of environment.
These animals have adapted to harsh desert environments over thousands of years.
The company designs software that runs across several operating environments.
Note
This plural is regular, and it belongs to the countable senses: desert environments, operating environments, hostile political or social environments, the software and hardware setups a program runs on. The natural world as a whole is usually just the environment, singular and with the. Once the word turns plural, it is counting particular settings or systems again rather than naming the living world at large.
environments is a form of environment
environment, noun: The conditions and surroundings in which someone or something exists or operates, including social and political ones, and the influence they have. Full entry
- Forms
- environmentenvironments plural
- Spelling
- environment → environments: add -s
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