setup
Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
Example
“The laboratory included an elaborate setup for measuring the energy.”
Other meanings
The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
“The classroom setup was simple and efficient.”
A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody.
“Trust me, that was a setup!”
Synonyms
- apparatus
A kind of
- equipment
Kinds of setup
- burner
- chemical reactor
- condenser
- generator
- heat pump
- lighting
- nuclear reactor
- pendulum
Related words
- setup block
- setup fee
- setup man
- setup time
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “setup” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.