ENVIRONMENTAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does environmental mean? 

• ENVIRONMENTAL (adjective)
  The adjective ENVIRONMENTAL has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings

2. concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment

  Familiarity information: ENVIRONMENTAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENVIRONMENTAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

environmental factors

Pertainym:

environment (the totality of surrounding conditions)

Derivation:

environment (the totality of surrounding conditions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

environmental pollution

Pertainym:

ecology (the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment)

 Context examples 

M. chelonae is a fast growing mycobacterium isolated from environmental, animal and human sources and is often associated with post-operative soft tissue infection.

(Mycobacterium chelonae, NCI Thesaurus)

Saif said that the teams envision the advance leading to the development of multicellular engineered living systems with the ability to respond intelligently to environmental cues.

(Researchers build microscopic biohybrid robots propelled by muscles, nerves, National Science Foundation)

Alterations can be inherited or caused by an environmental exposure to carcinogens.

(Oncogene, NCI Thesaurus)

The findings support the idea that dietary specialists are more vulnerable to changes in resource availability and environmental change than are more resilient generalists.

(Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins, National Science Foundation)

p38 MAPKs are members of the MAPK family that are activated by a variety of environmental stresses and inflammatory cytokines.

(p38 MAPK Signaling Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Other causes of bone marrow disorders include your genetic makeup and environmental factors.

(Bone Marrow Diseases, NIH)

Understanding the conditions that lead to the formation of ice is an active quest in the environmental and earth sciences, physics, chemistry, biology and engineering.

(Scientists probe the limits of ice, National Science Foundation)

“Grafting allows for the combination of the desired shoot characteristics with roots that can overcome environmental stress.”

(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)

Perspiration experienced nocturnally that is unrelated to environmental temperature.

(Night Sweats, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a regulatory role in transcription in response to developmental and environmental stimuli.

(ARNT2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)