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Noun setup has 3 senses

• setup(n = noun.artifact) apparatus - equipment designed to serve a specific function; Array
has particulars: aerator, burner, cascade liquefier, centrifuge, extractor, separator, chemical reactor, condenser, copier, duplicator, electrograph, generator, heat pump, heliograph, brooder, incubator, instillator, kipp's apparatus, lighting, nuclear reactor, reactor, optical bench, pendulum, purifier, reformer, semaphore, sequenator, sequencer, soda fountain, still, submersible, telegraph, telegraphy, titrator, x-ray machine
is a kind of equipment

• setup(n = noun.attribute) Array - the way something is organized or arranged; "it takes time to learn the setup around here"
is a kind of fashion, manner, mode, style, way

• setup(n = noun.act) frame-up - an act that incriminates someone on a false charge; Array
is a kind of falsehood, falsification
Derived form verb set up₇

THESAURUS

setup

anatomy, approach, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, array, assemblage, assembly, attack, blueprint, blueprinting, breeze, build, building, buildup, calculation, charting, cinch, combination, composition, compound, conception, concord, conformation, constitution, construction, contrivance, creation, deployment, design, device, disposal, disposition, duck, easy target, easy thing, embodiment, enterprise, envisagement, fabric, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, figuring, foresight, forethought, forging, form, format, formation, frame, frame-up, game, getup, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, harmony, idea, incorporation, intention, junction, layout, lineup, long-range plan, make, makeup, making, manufacture, mapping, marshaling, master plan, method, methodology, mixture, mold, molding, operations research, order, organic structure, organism, organization, packed deal, packed jury, pattern, patterning, peace, physique, picnic, pie, piece of cake, piecing together, pipe, plan, planning, planning function, plotting, prearrangement, preconcertedness, premeditation, preordering, procedure, production, program, program of action, proportion, pushover, put-up job, putting together, quiet, quietude, rationalization, regularity, rigged jury, routine, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, scheming, shape, shaping, sinecure, sitting duck, snap, stacked deck, strategic plan, strategy, structure, structuring, symmetry, syneresis, synthesis, system, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, tectonics, texture, the big picture, the picture, tissue, tranquillity, uniformity, velvet, warp and woof, way, weave, web, working plan

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