Setting

Setting may refer to:

  • A location (geography) where something is set
  • Set construction in theatrical scenery
  • Setting (narrative), the place and time in a work of narrative, especially fiction
  • Setting up to fail a manipulative technique to engineer failure
  • Stonesetting, in jewelry, when a diamond or gem is set into a frame or bed
  • Campaign setting in role playing games
  • In computers and electronics, the Computer configuration or options of the software or device
  • Typesetting
  • Set and setting, the context for psychedelic drug experiences
  • Setting (knot), the tightening of a knot

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Famous quotes containing the word setting:

    A fit abode for a poet. Stage setting at least correct.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man’s will and his environment: in a word, of problem.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    something far more deeply interfused,
    Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
    William Wordsworth (1770–1850)