Thesaurus results for SETTINGS

settings

noun

plural of setting

as in environments

the circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded the novice camper felt lost outside of his familiar urban setting

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as in scenes

the place and time in which the action for a portion of a dramatic work (as a movie) is set the setting for the novel is Victorian England

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Recent Examples of settings Some are accessible via the settings gear, others via another quick settings menu parked in the lower left of the screen, and still some others are in both places. — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 5 Nov. 2026 Our Cyberpunk 2077 test settings push systems to their limits without frame generation or resolution upscaling, using the Ultra and all-out Ray Tracing Overdrive graphics presets at 1080p and 1440p for desktop Macs, or 1200p and 1600p for MacBooks. — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026 At one, the settings are essentially for new drivers who really shouldn’t be behind the wheel of this vehicle. — Roberto Baldwin, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026 Investors using the app's agents on the brokerage's default settings have to approve every trade decision. — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026 The experience has given Alderton a taste for adaptation—and for tackling narratives with settings that go outside her own personal experience. — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 5 Nov. 2026 During pre-training, GO-3 Preview is designed to perform unfamiliar tasks in different environments, including homes, kitchens and multi-robot settings. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026 Hold your prompts, tool definitions, retrieval rules, and settings as provider-neutral configuration, with verification tests that prove behavior still works after a swap. — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026 Enjoying familiar traditions in gentler settings, Anderson suggests, may slowly change the emotions those traditions bring up. — Ashley Lynch, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Engineers are also working on the advanced radioisotope thermoelectric generators to maximize power output for deep-space environments.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
But for highly sensitive data and AI workloads, some organizations require stronger isolation and operational controls provided by air-gapped environments.

— Karan Alang, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of environments

Noun

Families will appreciate the custom coloring books at the host stand, which feature dogs in scenes around the hotel.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 2026
Since her 2019 debut, PURGE, which drew from her experiences in the New York and Berlin rave and punk scenes, Chen has been moving toward ever-sharper contrasts between caustic drones and close-mic’d croons.

— James Gui, Pitchfork, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of scenes

Noun

Astronomers have cataloged more than 6,000 exoplanets and are examining the atmospheres of promising worlds for gases that could indicate biological activity.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
This Mount Rushmore represents a good mix of four different kinds of food and dining experiences, with different menus, atmospheres, and themes.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of atmospheres

Noun

Candidates should be evaluated on subject knowledge, instructional skill, and their ability to teach students from different backgrounds.

— Ilya Shapiro, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
Beyond their Group of Six backgrounds, the similarities between their Florida teams are becoming difficult to ignore.

— Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of backgrounds

Noun

On its own, without a subwoofer or rear surrounds, the Bravia Theater Trio puts out a large, powerful front sound field.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026
Neither are ideal, but this hasn’t prevented City fans from generating a decent atmosphere inside their new surrounds, particularly during last season’s run-in when the final nine home games were all won.

— Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of surrounds

Noun

The $49 Patron tier ads customized posters and backdrops and access to some beta features.

— Pat Saperstein, Variety, 5 Nov. 2026
The lush backdrops make for a striking contrast with the shame and alienation the characters feel; Haynes sensitively communicates the suffocating pressure to confirm in midcentury America.

— Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of backdrops

Noun

The current system also supports contexts of up to 1,024 tokens and proves an integer version of the model under greedy decoding.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026
Scientific research and the burgeoning field of data analysis had already required novel computational methods of display within industrially specialized contexts; GUIs made computers accessible to a broader public.

— Alec Mapes-Frances, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of contexts

Noun

The song was produced by the Bolt Cutters — Apple, Davíd Garza, Sebastian Steinberg, and Amy Aileen Wood, with each of their parts recorded remotely from locales including Los Angeles, Houston, and from the East Coast.

— Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2026
Products, such as the Marceau bag and the Montebello bottle holder, take their names from Parisian streets and locales.

— Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2026