Setting
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Setting may refer to:
  • A location (geography)
    Location (geography)
    The terms location and place in geography are used to identify a point or an area on the Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term 'location' generally implies a higher degree of can certainty than "place" which often has an ambiguous boundary relying more on human/social attributes of place identity...

     where something is set
  • Set construction
    Set construction
    Set construction is the process by which a set designer works in collaboration with the director of a production to create the set for a theatrical, film or television production...

     in theatrical scenery
  • Setting (fiction)
    Setting (fiction)
    In fiction, setting includes the time, location, and everything in which a story takes place, and initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story. Setting has been referred to as story world or milieu to include a context beyond the immediate surroundings of the story. Elements of setting may...

     in fiction
  • Setting up to fail
    Setting up to fail
    Setting up to fail is a psychological manipulation performed on a target in which the target is given a task which is designed to fail as it has an unrealistic objective - "the setting of impossible objectives... set up to fail". The target will become stressed trying to achieve the impossible,...

     a manipulative technique to engineer failure
  • Stonesetting
    Stonesetting
    Stonesetting is the art of securely setting or attaching gemstones into jewelry. Stonesetting can also be used in referring to setting a stone or orb believed to have magical properties into a staff.-Cabochon and facet:...

    , in jewelry, when a diamond or gem is set into a frame or bed
  • Campaign setting
    Campaign setting
    A campaign setting is usually a fictional world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame campaign. A campaign is a series of individual adventures, and a campaign setting is the world in which such adventures and campaigns take place...

     in role playing games
  • In computers and electronics, the Computer configuration
    Computer configuration
    In communications or computer systems, a configuration is an arrangement of functional units according to their nature, number, and chief characteristics. Often, configuration pertains to the choice of hardware, software, firmware, and documentation...

     or options of the software or device
  • Typesetting
    Typesetting
    Typesetting is the composition of text by means of types.Typesetting requires the prior process of designing a font and storing it in some manner...

  • Set and setting
    Set and setting
    Set and setting describes the context for psychoactive and particularly psychedelic drug experiences: one's mindset and the setting in which the user has the experience. This is especially relevant for psychedelic or hallucinogenic experiences...

    , the context for psychedelic drug experiences
  • Setting (knot), the tightening of a knot

Education

  • Ability grouping
    Ability grouping
    Ability grouping is the educational practice of grouping students by academic potential or past achievement.Ability groups are usually small, informal groups formed within a single classroom. Assignment to an ability group is often short-term , and varies by subject...

    , small groups formed within a single classroom
  • Tracking (education)
    Tracking (education)
    Tracking is separating pupils by academic ability into groups for all subjects or certain classes and curriculum within a school. It may be referred as streaming or phasing in certain schools. In a tracking system, the entire school population is assigned to classes according to whether the...

    , also called streaming, separating pupils by academic ability into groups for all subjects within a school
  • The location where the education takes place, for example the classroom
    Classroom
    A classroom is a room in which teaching or learning activities can take place. Classrooms are found in educational institutions of all kinds, including public and private schools, corporations, and religious and humanitarian organizations...

    , known as the educational setting
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