--- title: "How to pronounce \"set point\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"set point\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/A7M_mqXzpr8/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/set-point" --- # How to pronounce "set point" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/ˈsɛtpɔɪnt/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **set·point** - **Parts of Speech**: noun - **NOUN**: The command signal or value which is fed into a controller to establish the target or desired position or state of the controlled device or process. ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "set point" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "set point um and that's why we have such a hard time losing weight right because it's a genetically predetermined set" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 8:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7M_mqXzpr8&t=531s) ### Example 2 > "research on on on flourishing on on on a life well- lived is that we all have a set point for happiness that we tend to return to but we can live our lives in ways that bring us above or below that set point fairly consistently uh the answer that I came to I'll give away the ending of the book right here um is that" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RQ6YQPhc6g&t=37s) ### Example 3 > "set point that accounts for 50% of Happiness um and life circumstances only account for" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 31:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EEJYFWueKg&t=1914s) ### Example 4 > "set point into the base like that spread that out make sure you go to the edge so it just catches in the edge and stops" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:46](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGAyt5V6CBg&t=226s) ### Example 5 > "world works and how to interact with it and so these priors that you commit to are largely target values that our needs should approach set points and this deviation to the set point creates some urge some tension and we find ourselves living inside of feedback loops right consciousness emerges over dimensions of disagreements with the universe things that you care things are not the way there should be but you need to regulate" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 45:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-2P3MSZrBM&t=2729s) ### Example 6 > "guy I mentioned before in relation to the brain, Professor Aurelio Galli, some of them argue that what the drug may be doing is actually resetting your biological set point. Lowering the kind of temperature which your body tries to keep your weight. It's bringing your set point down so that you don't get those effects like the metabolism slowing and all the other things that kick in when you try to lose weight. I think on average, and this might not" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 39:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YMnHNIuK3M&t=2355s) ### Example 7 > "eating maybe I mean I have less yeah and then you bring the set point down well that's your new that's your new set point you're going to have to stay at that set point now if you don't ever want to gain another pound you see the game oh okay so my set point is moving the crafty it moves because as you restrict and you if as food restriction goes down and energy output goes up your set point goes down and now you're like I feel great but you" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 54:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2mQOGzHtQc&t=3278s) ### Example 8 > "blood pressure control once you lose fat it's this counterregulation until a uh a specific set point and what we need to do is we need to uh get around this set point or reduce it so so there's kind of a body memory of our ideal weight or of" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_uO6yFm1Xw&t=76s) ### Example 9 > "- Sure, so deliberate shivering without cold is essentially what happens when you get a fever. Your set point goes up in your hypothalamus and you actually, even though you're a normal body temperature, your thermostat is telling you you're too cold, increase your metabolism. So shiver, right?" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 86:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77CdVSpnUX4&t=5180s) ### Example 10 > "the set point Theory I understood about that and metabolic adaptation which is where your body starts fighting to get you back to that heaviest weight but it" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYTgRZiREQc&t=402s) ## Related Words & Synonyms - **Nearby Vocabulary**: [point out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/point-out), [bring up](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/bring-up), [call attention to](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/call-attention-to), [draw attention to](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/draw-attention-to), [single out](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/single-out), [highlight](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/highlight), [set up](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/set-up), [put together](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/put-together) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "set point" correctly? 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