setup
noun
us
/ˈset̬ˌʌp/setup noun (ARRANGEMENT)
[ C/U ]
an arrangement of things that allows something to happen, or the process that prepares this arrangement:
Meaning of setup in English
(Definition of setup from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
setup | Business English
setup
noun
(also set-up) uk
/ˈsetʌp/ us
[ C, usually singular ]
the way in which something is organized:
Under the new setup the department will have full responsibility for its own finances.
Examples of setup
setup
In a nonlinear environment, it would be enough to have locally increasing returns like setup costs.
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Below we introduce the precise setup and present our main results in a series of theorems.
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A setup like this allows for two tasks differing in the assignment of responses to stimuli.
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There has been little change in the setup of government agencies, which have proven to persist once they had grown.
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There may be setup costs to build a lighthouse with the capacity to protect vessels moving at a given speed.
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Finally, we ran the same setup for nonlinear laser field strengths.
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However, crossover, the operator that performs recombination of the parts of existing binary strings has no counterpart in the current setup.
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This setup ensures that only ions with small initial velocity components perpendicular to the drift field are recorded.
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The work presented here evaluates the setup reproducibility of several head and neck immobilisation masks from several different manufacturers.
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The solution we present is not limited to our experimental setup.
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An advantage of the linear-quadratic setup is that it allows an easy analysis of the model's equilibrium when agents face specific types of uncertainty.
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In his setup, one generation of parents care about their children's future consumption, and there is regression to the mean between parents' and children's earnings.
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In particular, we plan to study how to dynamically setup the routing mechanism according to the variable network conditions in terms of peer stability.
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Maximizing setup accuracy using portal images as applied to a conformal boost technique for prostatic cancer.
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This setup essentially provides spatial resolution to better than 200 mm.
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