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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=cybernetics">cybernetics</a> and <a href="page.php?w=control_theory">control theory</a>, a <b>setpoint</b> (<b>SP</b>; also <b>set point</b>) is the desired or target value for an essential variable, or <a href="page.php?w=Process_variable">process value</a> (PV) of a <a href="page.php?w=control_system">control system</a>, which may differ from the actual measured value of the variable.  Departure of such a variable from its setpoint is one basis for error-controlled regulation using <a href="page.php?w=negative_feedback">negative feedback</a></p><p>
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