Reversing role of group and set in definition of stabilizer

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Given a group action of $G$ on $M$, we have the notion of the stabilizer of a point $m$ :

$Stab_G(m)=\{g \in G | g(m)=m \}$

, and we could extend this to a definition of the stabilizer of a generic subset of $M$.

Reversing the roles, we could do something similar. Given a subgroup $H < G$, we could define a subset in $M$ s.t. :

$U_H=\{ m \in M | h(m)=m, \forall h \in H\}$,

i.e. the set of all elements which is stabilized by all elements of the subgroup $H$.

If we define $U_g$ as :

$U_g=\{ m \in M | g(m)=m\}$

than:

$U_H=\cap_{h\in H}U_{h}$

Do these definitions make sense ? Do they have a proper "official" name ?