Setting can mean:

• Jewelry:
  • Setting (the noun): Frame or bed into which a diamond or gem is set, see also personal setting
  • Setting (the verb) describes is the art to fasten a diamond or gem into a jewelry item
• A place where something is set
• Set construction in theatrical scenery
• Setting (fiction) in literature
• Campaign setting in role playing games
• Setting - a frame - in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy- all the basic rules regulating place, time and behaviors within which therapeutic process and therapeutic alliance evolve
• A Setting is a term used in Irish traditional music to describe a version of a tune that is incompatible when played together with other versions of the same tune.
• Tracking (education), grouping students by ability.
• In computers and electronics, can refer to the configuration of options of the software or device