Area around a given physical or geographical point or place
"Vicinity" redirects here. For other uses, see Vicinity (disambiguation). For the concept in thermodynamics, see Surroundings (thermodynamics). For military situation of surrounding, see Encirclement and Siege.
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Surroundings, or environs is an area around a given physical or geographical point or place. The exact definition depends on the field. Surroundings can also be used in geography (when it is more precisely known as vicinity, or vicinage) and mathematics, as well as philosophy, with the literal or metaphorically extended definition.
In thermodynamics, the term (and its synonym, environment) is used in a more restricted sense, meaning everything outside the thermodynamic system. Often, the simplifying assumptions are that energy and matter may move freely within the surroundings, and that the surroundings have a uniform composition.
Surroundings, or environs is an area around a given physical or geographical point or place. The exact definition depends on the field. Surroundings can...
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Japanese Homes and their Surroundings is a book by Edward S. Morse describing and illustrating the construction of Japanese homes. It was first published...
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Bigham on guitar and keyboards in 1989. The 1991 album The Reality of My Surroundings was a critical and commercial success, reaching #49 on the Billboard...
The Reality of My Surroundings is the third studio album by the American rock band Fishbone, released on April 23, 1991 through Columbia Records. It was...
of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings Environment (systems), the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system...
thermodynamic process or reaction that releases energy from the system to its surroundings, usually in the form of heat, but also in a form of light (e.g. a spark...
thermodynamic system is a body of matter and/or radiation separate from its surroundings that can be studied using the laws of thermodynamics. Thermodynamic systems...
life and surroundings. The term is most frequently used of a genre of photography. By photographing a person in their natural surroundings, it is thought...
increasing the entropy of the system's surroundings, that is, both the state of the system plus the state of its surroundings cannot be together, fully reversed...
machines of the first kind are impossible; work done by a system on its surroundings requires that the system's internal energy be consumed, so that the amount...
Rudolf Clausius generalized this picture to include the concept of the surroundings and began to use the term working body when referring to the system....
events such as Carnival and pop concerts. The design of the cathedral surroundings has remained a challenge for urban planning. In medieval Cologne, buildings...
its surroundings. (Note, an alternate sign convention, not used in this article, is to define W as the work done on the system by its surroundings):...
energy, not heat. The hot metal bar is also transferring heat to its surroundings, a correct statement for both the strict and loose meanings of heat....
change in the position of an object relative to its surroundings or a change in the surroundings relative to an object. It can be achieved by either mechanical...
defined them as films focusing on romance and relationships in sumptuous surroundings, contrasting them with other historical dramas believed to have more...
of vacation homes for the elites. During the 1980s, Lake Caliraya's surroundings were occupied by the locals with members of the New People's Army (NPA)...
dialing codes used in Italy 010 – City of Genoa and surroundings 011 – City of Turin and surroundings 0122 – Metropolitan City of Turin – Susa Valley area...
contrast, an adiabatic process is where a system exchanges no heat with its surroundings (Q = 0). Simply, we can say that in an isothermal process T=constant{\displaystyle...
the substances involved. Some energy may be transferred between the surroundings and the reactants in the form of heat or light; thus the products of...
temperature reservoir) and the gas is allowed to expand, doing work on the surroundings by gas pushing up the piston (stage 1 figure, right). Although the pressure...
Topographical disorientation is the inability to orient oneself in one's surroundings, sometimes as a result of focal brain damage. This disability may result...
process is a chemical or physical process that absorbs heat from its surroundings. In terms of thermodynamics and thermochemistry, it is a thermodynamic...
areas based on the concept of a single urban core and its immediate surroundings, as opposed to polycentric conurbations. These definitions vary from...
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