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Setting out (construction)
Setting out, called layout in US usage, establishes marks and lines defining the position and level of construction elements, transferring design dimensions from drawings onto the ground.
Settings (Windows)
Settings, also called Windows Settings, is the main Windows application for customizing the operating system, introduced in 2012 with Windows 8 and gradually absorbing the older Control Panel.
Settlement (litigation)
Settlement (litigation): negotiated resolution of a legal claim without adjudicated judgment, also called out-of-court settlement. Most civil cases end this way; US federal rates run 60-70%, shaped by information, costs, Rule 68, and Rule 408.
Settlement and Artificial Mummification of the Chinchorro Culture in the Arica and Parinacota Region
UNESCO World Heritage site (2021) in Arica and Parinacota, Chile: three Chinchorro culture components preserving the oldest known artificially mummified human bodies, made from about 5050 BCE on the Atacama coast.
Settlement hierarchy
The settlement hierarchy, also called the human settlement hierarchy, ranks settlements from hamlets to cities, each level offering a broader range of goods and services.
Settlement of Iceland
Settlement of Iceland (landnám): Norse colonization of an uninhabited island after AD 850, large-scale after 870, dated by the 871±2 Landnám tephra; recorded in Íslendingabók and Landnámabók; settlers of Norse and British-Irish origin.
Settlement of Pitcairn Island
The settlement of Pitcairn Island was the community founded in 1790 on the remote South Pacific island of Pitcairn by nine HMS Bounty mutineers and Polynesians from Tahiti.
Settlement of São Tomé
The settlement of São Tomé was the Portuguese colonization, beginning in 1493, of the previously uninhabited Gulf of Guinea island of São Tomé, under donator-captain Álvaro de Caminha.
Settlement of the Meshwesh in Egypt
The settlement of the Meshwesh in Egypt was the settling of Libyan tribes in the western Delta from the 13th century BC, eventually producing the Libyan dynasties.
Settler colonialism
Settler colonialism is a form of colonialism in which settlers move permanently to replace Indigenous populations. Also called settlement colonialism, it is defined by Patrick Wolfe's logic of elimination and structure-not-event thesis, consolidated as a field from the mid-1990s.
Settling basin
A settling basin, also called a desilting basin or desander, is a widened, deepened section of a water channel where slowed flow lets sediment settle before turbines.
Settsu Province
Settsu Province (摂津国, Settsu no kuni) was a pre-modern Japanese province in the Kinai region, corresponding to northern Osaka Prefecture and southeastern Hyogo Prefecture, whose Osaka Bay ports made it the maritime gateway to western Japan.
Setúbal
Setúbal: coastal city and district capital in Portugal at the mouth of the River Sado, 40-50 km from Lisbon. Former Roman Cetóbriga, 123,496 residents (2021), port and fish-salting heritage, Arrábida Natural Park and Sado estuary dolphins.
Setúbal District
Setúbal District (Distrito de Setúbal), Portuguese first-order administrative division created 23 December 1926 from Lisbon district; capital Setúbal; 13 municipalities, 60 parishes, 5,214 km², 874,806 residents (2021 census), spanning Península de Setúbal and Alentejo Litoral.
Setubandha
Setubandha (सेतुबन्ध) is a fifth-century Prakrit court epic attributed to the Vakataka king Pravarasena II, retelling Rama's building of the bridge to Lanka and defeat of Ravana.
Setuid
Setuid, also known as set user ID or the setuid bit, is a Unix permission bit that lets a program run with its file owner's privileges, often root.
Setul Kingdom
The Setul Kingdom (Malay: Kerajaan Setul Mambang Segara; Thai: Satun) was a small Malay kingdom in present-day Satun Province, southern Thailand, under Kedah's royal family from the 1840s until 1916.
Setut
Setut is a barely attested king of the Heracleopolitan Ninth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, in the First Intermediate Period, known only from the damaged Turin King List.
SETX
SETX is a human protein-coding gene on 9q34.13 encoding senataxin, an RNA/DNA helicase that resolves R-loops and terminates transcription; recessive loss-of-function mutations cause AOA2 ataxia and dominant mutations cause juvenile ALS4.
Seu Jorge
Seu Jorge (Jorge Mário da Silva, born 1970) is a Brazilian samba-rock singer, songwriter, and actor from Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro. Known for City of God, Portuguese Bowie covers in The Life Aquatic, and albums Samba Esporte Fino and The Other Side.
Seulki Lee
Seulki Lee (이슬기) is a South Korean peptide scientist and biotech entrepreneur who founded D&D Pharmatech in 2014 and has led it as chief executive since 2020.
Seun Johnson-Akeju
Seun Johnson-Akeju, also known as Oluwaseun Johnson-Akeju, is an American anesthesiologist who chairs anesthesiology at Mass General Brigham, holds a Harvard professorship, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Seuna (Yadava) dynasty
The Seuna (Yadava) dynasty, or Yadavas of Devagiri, was a medieval Indian dynasty of the Deccan that ruled from Devagiri and became independent around 1187.
Seung Hwan Ko
Seung Hwan Ko (고승환) is a South Korean mechanical engineer and professor at Seoul National University, known for laser-based nanofabrication methods enabling flexible, stretchable, and wearable electronics.
Seung K. Kim
Seung K. Kim is a Stanford physician-scientist and KM Mulberry Professor who studies how insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells develop and regenerate, work aimed at replacing the cells lost in diabetes.
Seung Woo Lee
Seung Woo Lee is a mechanical engineer and associate professor at Georgia Tech who directs the Energy Storage and Conversion Laboratory and researches batteries and supercapacitors.
Seung Y. Rhee
Seung Y. Rhee, also known as Seung Yon Rhee (이승연) or Sue Rhee, is a plant biologist directing Michigan State University's Plant Resilience Institute since 2023.
Seung-Hui Cho (조승희)
Seung-Hui Cho (조승희), born 1984 in Seoul, was the Virginia Tech senior who killed 32 people and wounded 17 on April 16, 2007, before killing himself; he had a 2005 outpatient commitment order and passed gun background checks.
Seung‐Man Yang
Seung-Man Yang (1950–2013) was a South Korean chemical engineer and KAIST professor known for colloidal self-assembly, photonic crystals, and optofluidics, winning the DuPont Science & Technology Award in 2007.
Seung‐Taek Myung
Seung-Taek Myung is a South Korean battery materials researcher and professor of nano engineering at Sejong University in Seoul, working on electrode materials for lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries.