surroundings
noun/səˈɹaʊndɪŋz/
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The area surrounding someone or something, together with the objects and circumstances in the vicinity; the environment or ambiance.
- His tall, gaunt, stringy figure is insensible to fatigue, and his dry, half-sarcastic, and often wholly unsympathetic manner is uninfluenced by any change in his surroundings.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- We like the way they live, in their penthouselike surroundings filled with fake ferns and goldfish.1988 June, Spy, page 27:
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- The e-boutique has to engage them in an elevated way and they have to be stimulated by the virtual surroundings.2010, Uché Okonkwo, Luxury Online: Styles, Systems, Strategies, page 226:
- Although operational environments profoundly differ, both kinds of autonomous vehicles, groundcraft and aircraft, will still rely on conceptually the same sorts of sensors — cameras, radar and lidar — to perceive surroundings in real time.2020 January 1, Adam Hadhazy, “Achieving autonomy”, in Aerospace America, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2025:
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics All parts of the universe that are not within the thermodynamic system of interest.