SET POINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does set point mean? 

• SET POINT (noun)
  The noun SET POINT has 1 sense:

1. (tennis) the final point needed to win a set in tennis

  Familiarity information: SET POINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SET POINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(tennis) the final point needed to win a set in tennis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("set point" is a kind of...):

point (the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest)

Holonyms ("set point" is a part of...):

lawn tennis; tennis (a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court)

 Context examples 

The distance between a point and a fixed reference point; difference between a set point and the actual reading.

(Offset, NCI Thesaurus)

We estimate that between 1.8 and 4.1 billion people in the Global South — with a median of 3.7 billion for 26 degrees Celsius set point threshold and at least five days of annual exposure — are potentially exposed to heat stress in their homes, says Narasimha Rao, co-author of the study and assistant professor of energy systems at Yale University in the United States.

(Billions at risk from heat stress at home, SciDev.Net)