environment variable
Computing
noun
A variable used to describe some property of a particular environment, which is stored by the operating system and which can be accessed by any process which requires it.
Origin
1980s.
- anti-democratic
- antidepressant
- antidiarrhoeal
- anti-discrimination
- antidisestablishmentarian
- antidisestablishmentarianism
- antidiuretic hormone
- antidotal
- antidote
- antidromic
- anti-emetic
- anti-establishment
- Antietam
- antifeedant
- anti-feminism
- anti-feminist
- antiferromagnetic
- antifouling
- anti-fraud
- antifreeze
- antifungal
- anti-g
- anti-gay
- antigen
- antigenic