Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or associated with the environment.
- adjective Relating to or concerned with the impact of human activities on the natural environment.
- adjective Relating to potentially harmful factors originating in the environment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the character of an environment; environing; surrounding: as, environmental influences.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to the environment.
- adjective of or pertaining to the environment (definition 2).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective pertaining to one's
environment
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment
- adjective of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings
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Examples
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If we suppose that some of the ˜pegs™ in Waddington's model are environmental factors, rather than genetic loci, then we can define separate notions of ˜environmental canalisation™ and ˜genetic canalisation™.
The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics Griffiths, Paul 2009
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The unpopularity of the green movement still makes the term "environmental" seem toxic in some circles.
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The term environmental technologies refers to technologies that cause less negative impact on the environment.
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The team found that in the previous two decades industrial society had gone into overshoot - the term environmental scientists use for a population of living things that is consuming vital resources so extravagantly that the ability of their environment to keep supporting them is at risk.
P2P Foundation 2009
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In 1987, Benjamin Chavis of the United Church of Christ Commission for Racism and Justice coined the term environmental racism to describe such a practice.
AP Environmental Science Chapter 22- Culture and Aesthetic 2008
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In Alaska, most of the people I knew were military or Alaskan natives or what we call the environmental folks.
Leading the Way 2007
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Now the preliminary EPA report there, found what it calls environmental health challenges in "animal control, food safety and sanitation, drinking water, waste water, and contamination of water and sediments from gasoline and other chemicals."
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A man from the World Wildlife Federation presented photographs from Fort McMurray, Alta., visual evidence for what he called the environmental destruction wrought by the production of the world's most expensive oil.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed KEVIN CARMICHAEL 2011
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Canada's natural resources minister is on the warpath against what he calls "environmental and other radical groups" that are getting in the way of forestry, mining and energy projects.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Michael Babad 2012
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He would defund Planned Parenthood, change Medicaid reimbursements to state block grants, abolish the Energy Department, and replace the Environmental Protection Agency with what he calls an "environmental solutions agency."
NPR Topics: News 2011
amykate commented on the word environmental
All those syllables to roll on the tongue, heavenly.
December 6, 2006
seanahan commented on the word environmental
I always trip over the "nm", so I usually say "envie-er-mental"
December 6, 2006