Setback



GRE 考研

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 挫折
• ［英］ n. 挫折 ( something that prevents successful progress)

Webster Collegiate

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• Date: 1674
• 1. a checking of progress
• 2. defeat, reverse
• 3. pitch IV,7
• 4. a placing of a face of a building on a line some distance to the rear of the building line or of the wall below; also the area produced by a setback
• 5. automatic scheduled adjustment to a lower temperature setting of a thermostat
• 6. the distance of a structure or other feature (as a well or septic system) from the property line or other feature

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