environmental
English
Etymology
environment + -al
Pronunciation
Adjective
environmental (not comparable)
- 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.
Derived terms
- agro-environmental
- antienvironmental
- bioenvironmental
- 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
- nonenvironmental
- paleoenvironmental
- socioenvironmental
Translations
pertaining to the environment
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Noun
environmental (plural environmentals)
- (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.
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