Setup (the noun) or set up (the verb) may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Set Up'' (2005 film), a 2005 Hong Kong horror film * ''Setup'' (2011 film), a 2011 action thriller heist film

Literature

* ''Set Up'', a 1992 novel by

Peter Corris Peter Robert Corris (8 May 1942 – 30 August 2018) was an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction. As crime fiction writer, he was described as "the Godfather of contemporary Australian crime-w ...

* ''Set Up'', a 1999 novel by

Claire McNab Claire Carmichael (1940 – 2022), also known by her pen name Claire McNab, was an Australian writer born in Melbourne. While pursuing a career as a high school teacher in Sydney, she began her writing career with comedy plays and textbooks. She ...

Music

* ''Setup'' (album), a 1994 album by jazz pianist Stanley Cowell * Setup (music)

Sports

Racing setup In motorsport, the racing setup, car setup or vehicle setup is the set of adjustments made to the vehicle in order to optimize its behaviour (performance, Car handling, handling, reliability, etc.) for specific conditions. Vehicle setups are varia ...

, in auto racing *

Setup pitcher In baseball, a setup man (or set-up man, also sometimes referred to as a setup pitcher or setup reliever) is a relief pitcher who regularly pitches before the closer. They commonly pitch the eighth inning, with the closer pitching the ninth. As ...

Other uses

* Setup (storytelling), the introduction in a plot of an element that will be useful to the story only later, when the payoff comes *Setup, also called

frameup In the United States criminal law, a frame-up (frameup) or setup is the act of falsely implicating (framing) someone in a crime by providing fabricated evidence or testimony. In British usage, to frame, stitch up, or fit-up, is to maliciously ...

, providing false evidence or false testimony in order to falsely prove someone guilty of a crime *Setup,

installation (computer programs) Installation (or setup) of a computer program (including device drivers and plugins), is the act of making the program ready for execution. Installation refers to the particular configuration of software or hardware with a view to making it usab ...

*Setup,

power-on self-test A power-on self-test (POST) is a process performed by firmware or software routines immediately after a computer or other digital electronic device is powered on. POST processes may set the initial state of the device from firmware and detec ...

*Setup, on page 104 of '' The Black Ice'', delivery of an alcoholic drink in a bar *

Setup cost In manufacturing, changeovers are also called "changeover times", which is the time and process it takes to convert a machine from making one product, to a different product. Its the time between one product being finished, and a new product begi ...