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Noun setup has 3 senses
  1. apparatus, setup - equipment designed to serve a specific function
    --1 is a kind of equipment
    --1 has particulars:
     aerator; burner; cascade liquefier; centrifuge, extractor, separator; chemical reactor; cloud chamber, Wilson cloud chamber; condenser; duplicator, copier; electrograph; generator; heat pump; heliograph; incubator, brooder; instillator; Kipp's apparatus; lighting; nuclear reactor, reactor; optical bench; pendulum; purifier; reformer; semaphore; sequencer, sequenator; soda fountain; still; submersible; telegraph, telegraphy; titrator; X-ray machine
  2. setup - the way something is organized or arranged; "it takes time to learn the setup around here"
    --2 is a kind of     manner, mode, style, way, fashion
  3. frame-up, setup - an act that incriminates someone on a false charge
    --3 is a kind of falsification, falsehood
    Derived form: verb set up7
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