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   set

   /sɛt/

   verb

   • 1. put, lay, or stand (something) in a specified place or position: "Delaney set the mug of tea down" Similar putplaceput downlaylay downdepositpositionsettlestationleavestowpropleanstandplantposedisposeinformal:stickdumpbungparkplonkplumppopplunkrare:posit
   • ▪ be situated or fixed in a specified place or position: "the village was set among olive groves on a hill" Similar be situatedbe locatedliestandbe sitedbe perchedbe found
   • ▪ represent (a story, play, film, or scene) as happening at a specified time or in a specified place: "a private-eye novel set in Berlin"
   • ▪ mount a precious stone in (something, typically a piece of jewellery): "a bracelet set with emeralds"
   • ▪ mount (a precious stone) in something: "a huge square-cut emerald set in platinum" Similar adornornamentdecorateembellishdeckbedeckliterary:bejewel
   • ▪ arrange (type) as required: "the compositors refused to set the type for an editorial"
   • ▪ arrange the type for (a piece of text): "article headings will be set in Times fourteen point"
   • ▪ prepare (a table) for a meal by placing cutlery, crockery, etc. on it in their proper places: "she set the table and began breakfast" Similar laypreparearrangemake ready
   • ▪ move (a bell) so that it rests in an inverted position ready for ringing: "the ringer gradually increases the swing until the bell is balanced or set"
   • ▪ cause (a hen) to sit on eggs: "you had to set the clucking hens"
   • ▪ put (a seed or plant) in the ground to grow: "I set the plants in shallow hollows to facilitate watering"
   • ▪ put (a sail) up in position to catch the wind: "a safe distance from shore all sails were set"
   • 2. put or bring into a specified state: "the Home Secretary set in motion a review of the law"
   • ▪ cause (someone or something) to start doing something: "the incident set me thinking"
   • ▪ instruct (someone) to do something: "he'll set a man to watch you"
   • ▪ give someone (a task or test) to do: "schools will begin to set mock tests" Similar assignallocategiveallotdealprescribe
   • ▪ establish as (an example) for others to follow, copy, or try to achieve: "the scheme sets a precedent for other companies"
   • ▪ establish (a record): "his time in the 25 m freestyle set a national record" Similar establishset upcreateprovideinstitute
   • ▪ decide on and announce: "they set a date for a full hearing at the end of February" Similar decide onselectchoosearrangeschedulefixfix ondeterminedesignatenameappointspecifystipulatesettleresolve onagree onconfirm
   • ▪ fix (a price, value, or limit) on something: "the unions had set a limit on the size of the temporary workforce"
   • 3. adjust (a clock or watch), typically to show the right time: "set your watch immediately to local time at your destination" Similar adjustregulatesynchronizecoordinateharmonizecalibrateput rightcorrecttechnical:collimate
   • ▪ adjust (an alarm clock) to sound at the required time: "I usually set my alarm clock for eight" Similar programmeactivateswitch onturn on
   • ▪ adjust (a device) so that it performs a particular operation: "you have to be careful not to set the volume too high" Similar programmeactivateswitch onturn on
   • ▪ cause (a binary device) to enter the state representing the numeral 1.
   • 4. harden into a solid or semi-solid state: "cook for a further thirty-five minutes until the filling has set" Similar solidifyhardenbecome solidbecome hardstiffenthickengelcakecongealcoagulateclotfreezecrystallizerare:gelatinizeOpposite melt
   • ▪ arrange (the hair) while damp so that it dries in the required style: "she had set her hair on small rollers"
   • ▪ put parts of (a broken or dislocated bone or limb) into the correct position for healing: "he lined up the bones and set the arm"
   • ▪ (of a bone) be restored to its normal condition by knitting together again after being broken: "children's bones soon set"
   • ▪ (with reference to a person's face) assume or cause to assume a fixed or rigid expression: "her features never set into a civil parade of attention"
   • ▪ (of a hunting dog) adopt a rigid attitude indicating the presence of game.
   • 5. (of the sun, moon, or another celestial body) appear to move towards and below the earth's horizon as the earth rotates: "the sun was setting and a warm red glow filled the sky" Similar go downsinkdeclinedescenddropsubsidedip below the horizonvanishdisappearOpposite rise
   • 6. (of a tide or current) take or have a specified direction or course: "a fair tide can be carried well past Land's End before the stream sets to the north"
   • 7. start (a fire): North American "the school had been broken into and the fire had been set"
   • 8. (of blossom or a tree) form into or produce (fruit): "wait until first flowers have set fruit before planting out the peppers"
   • ▪ (of fruit) develop from blossom: "once fruits have set, feed weekly with a high potash liquid tomato fertilizer"
   • ▪ (of a plant) produce (seed): "the herb has flowered and started to set seed"
   • 9. sit: dialect "the rest of them people just set there goggle-eyed for a minute"

   Word Origin Old Englishsettan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zetten, German setzen, also to sit.

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   5 days ago · A set is a collection of elements that are usually related to each other. They can be sets of numbers, letters, people, cars, or even sets themselves! Thus, the elements stored in a stack, queue or list can all be considered as sets. When we define the elements in a set, we typically enclose them in curly brackets as follows. Here, A is the ...

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   4 days ago · Subsets of a set are the sets that contain elements only from the set itself. Subset (say A) of any set B is denoted as, A ⊆ B. Here at GeeksForGeeks learn about, Subsets, Difference between Proper and Improper Subsets with Examples and Others.

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   4 days ago · It is an unordered collection of objects in which duplicate values cannot be stored. It is an interface that implements the mathematical set. This interface contains the methods inherited from the Collection interface and adds a feature that restricts the insertion of the duplicate elements.

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   3 days ago · A set is a collection of things (called the elements of the set or the members of the set) without regard to their order. We often define sets by listing their contents within curly braces {}. For example, {1, 2, 3} is the set whose elements are the numbers 1, 2, and 3.

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   2 days ago · Definition. A (binary) relation \Re ℜ between two sets X X and Y Y is a subset of the Cartesian product X \times Y. X ×Y. One way to think about this definition is to think of it as that the ordered pairs correspond to the edges in a graph which links the related things.

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   2 days ago · The symmetric difference of set A with respect to set B is the set of elements which are in either of the sets A and B, but not in their intersection. This is denoted as \(\text{A B}\) or \(\text{A⊖B}\) or \(\text{A}{\oplus}{B}.\)

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   5 days ago · 7/1/2024. View full document. LECTURE NOTES CHAPTER 0NE – SET THEORY DEFINITION: Any well – defined collection of objects is called a set. The objects that make up a set called elements or members of the set. The following are therefore some examples of sets; • The collection (set) of students in the school of Science and Technology is a ...