environment

noun

in systems and engineering, part of the universe outside the boundaries of a system
surrounding of an organism or population
The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest
The natural world or ecosystem
All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs
A particular political or social setting, arena or condition
(computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system
(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
(computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process