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)
“should some limb of the devil
Destroy the view by cutting down an ash
That shades the road, or setting up a cottage
Planned in a government office, shorten his life,
Manacle his soul upon the Red Sea bottom.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The setting was really perfect for a brisk bubbling murder....”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)