Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia setup)

Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.

The laboratory included an elaborate setup for measuring the energy.

The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.

The classroom setup was simple and efficient.

An act to frame someone; an effort or arrangement aimed at placing the blame on somebody.

Trust me, that was a setup !

(computing) An installer.

After inserting the disk, run the setup .

(operations) The process of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.

A simple setup on the bottling line involves reloading bottles and labels; emptying, cleaning, and reloading the tanks; and a test run.

Noun

(en noun)

The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.

The natural world or ecosystem.

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All the elements over which a designer has no control and that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.

A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.

(computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

(programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.

(computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.