environmental

English

Etymology

From environment ‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntəl
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˌvaɪ.ɹə(n)ˈmɛn.təl/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ənˌvaɪ.ɚnˈmɛn.təl/

Adjective

environmental (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the environment.
   • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.

2. Environmentally friendly.
   • 2000, Henk Folmer, ‎H. Landis Gabel, Principles of Environmental and Resource Economics, page 365:

     Because consumers who are buying such productss cannot fully internalize the external utility of their purchase, prices for environmental products and other environmental innovations may be insufficiently high to cover their costs ( Kaas, 1993; Cleff and Rennings, 1999).

Derived terms

• agro-environmental
• antienvironmental
• bioenvironmental
• coenvironmental
• environmental assessment
• environmental audit
• environmental DNA
• environmental ethics
• environmentalism
• environmentalist
• environmentally
• environmental migrant
• environmental protection
• environmental racism
• environmental refugee
• environmental science
• environmental scientist
• geoenvironmental
• hydroenvironmental
• macroenvironmental
• microenvironmental
• multienvironmental
• nonenvironmental
• palaeoenvironmental
• paleoenvironmental
• proenvironmental
• socioenvironmental

 

Translations

pertaining to the environment

• Albanian: mjedisor, ambiental m
• Arabic: بِيئِيّ (bīʔiyy)
• Catalan: ambiental (ca), mediambiental (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 環境的／环境的 (zh) (huánjìng de)

• Danish: miljø-, miljømæssig
• Finnish: ympäristöllinen; ympäristö- (fi), ympäristön- (fi) (in compounds)
• French: environnemental (fr)
• German: Umwelt- (de)
• Greek: περιβαλλοντικός (el) (perivallontikós)
• Italian: ambientale (it)
• Norman: envithonnementa
• Polish: środowiskowy (pl)
• Portuguese: ambiental (pt)
• Russian: относя́щийся к окружа́ющей среде́ (otnosjáščijsja k okružájuščej sredé), экологи́ческий (ru) (ekologíčeskij)
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: wobswětowy

• Spanish: ambiental
• Swedish: miljö-, miljömässig
• Turkish: çevresel (tr)

Noun

environmental (plural environmentals)

1. (computing) Any factor relating to the physical environment in which hardware is operated, such as the room temperature or the number of racks used to hold equipment.
   • 2014, Kenneth Barrett, Stephen Norris, Running Mainframe z on Distributed Platforms, page 136:

     The process to enable migration from the vendor-supplied configuration to a new architecture depends on many system environmentals.