UK /ɪnˌvaɪ.ɹə(n)ˈmɛn.təl/ · US /ənˌvaɪ.ɚnˈmɛn.təl/
Etymology From environment + -al.
1
Pertaining to the environment.
That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
2
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).2000, Henk Folmer, H. Landis Gabel, Principles of Environmental and Resource Economics, page 365:
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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.2014, Kenneth Barrett, Stephen Norris, Running Mainframe z on Distributed Platforms, page 136: