late 14c., "fact or action of setting (something), putting, placing, planting," verbal noun from set (v.).
Meaning "place, location, site" is late 14c. Surgical sense, with reference to broken bones, etc., is from early 15c. In reference to heavenly bodies, from c. 1400. Also in Middle English "act of creation; thing created" (c. 1400). In reference to mounts for jewels, etc. from 1815; meaning "background, history, environment" is attested from 1841.
例文
1. The default is usually the setting that most users would probably choose.
デフォルトオプションは、通常、ほとんどのユーザーが選択する設定です。
2.The secret to happiness is to keep setting yourself new chalenges.
幸せの秘訣は、自分に新しい挑戦を絶えず設定することです。/
3.It is always an important occasion for setting out government policy.
これは、従来から政府政策を明らかにする重要なタイミングである。
4.Demonstrators turned on police,overturning vehicles and setting fire to them.
デモ隊は警察を攻撃し、車両を倒して放火した。/
5.You can boil the fish fillets on a high setting .