Meaning

• Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.

  "The laboratory included an elaborate setup for measuring the energy."

• 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!"

• An installer.

  "After inserting the disk, run the setup."

• (operations) The process of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.

  "A simple setup on the bottling line involves reloading bottles and labels; emptying, cleaning, and reloading the tanks; and a test run."

• The tendency of persistent wind to produce higher water levels at the downwind shore of a body of water and lower at the upwind shore.

  "There was a strong wind setup at the south end of the lake after a day of northerly gales."