environmental

B1
US /ənˌvaɪ.ɚnˈmɛn.təl/ UK /ɪnˌvaɪ.ɹə(n)ˈmɛn.təl/
adj noun Freq #7974

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment

    environmental pollution

  2. 2
    adj

    of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings

    environmental factors

  3. 3
    adj

    Pertaining to the environment.

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

  4. 4
    adj

    Environmentally friendly.

    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).

  5. 5
    noun

    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.

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

Etymology

From environment + -al.

Thesaurus

Word family
Derived forms agro-environmentalantienvironmentalbioenvironmentalcoenvironmentalenvironmentalismenvironmentalistenvironmentallygeoenvironmentalhydroenvironmentalmacroenvironmentalmicroenvironmentalmultienvironmental

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