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Any spatial attribute (especially as defined by outline)
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configuration
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from Latin configurationem (nominative configuratio ), noun of action from past participle stem of configurare (see configure ).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE different ▪ Such phase changes occur when minerals adopt different atomic configurations as temperatures and pressures change. ▪ Plants in the same general category produce different configurations of wastes, since ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Configuration may refer to: In computing : Computer configuration or system configuration Configuration file , a software file used to configure the initial settings for a computer program Configurator , also known as choice board, design system, or co-design ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an arrangement of parts or elements; "the outcome depends on the configuration of influences at the time" [syn: constellation ] any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline); "he could barely make out their shapes through the smoke" [syn: ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing's shape; figure; form factor. 2 Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time. 3 The way ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Configuration \Con*fig`u*ra"tion\, n. [L. configuratio.] Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing; shape; figure. It is the variety of configurations [of the mouth] . . . which gives birth and origin to the several vowels. ...
Usage examples of configuration.
The ambiplasma pressure will push fleeing molecules and particles into optimum configuration for further interaction.
Alps, mountaineers are said to use the ameboid configurations of elongated ant nests as pointers to the south.
It shows for the Australasian regions totally different configurations.
We settled down to look in more detail at the configuration of cables, drive train, repair stations and buckets that was being flashed to us over the suit videos.
Australasian regions and its fantastic islands, the leading feature inaugurated in this important wood block is a marked departure from the Behaimean and Schonerean configurations, one strange phase of this new departure being the total disappearance of the Austral-Asian continental protuberance which occupied in previous charts the site of Australia.
Mereological sums exist not only as configurations of physical objects in space but as sequences, or continua, of mental and physical events in time.
All the other kinds that have multiplied like rabbits in the minds of bought scientists are merely reactions to neutron configurations of flows and counterflows of energy.
Because the same data you received yesterday is in locked-down launch configuration at fifty places in the Landfall dataflow, preprogrammed for high-impact delivery into every corporate stack in the Cartel.
The sketch given here shows the Indian Ocean of a map of the world in an edition of La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alexandrino, published in Venice in 1574, the configuration of which map dates probably as far back as A.
Next you tow your twelve moons into place, positioning them so that they occupy the same synchronous orbit in a stable dodecagonal configuration.
He bent down and studied it, trying to judge what the angle of his vision had been a moment before and how such an angle might set a particular configuration of leaves into an earlike pattern.
Imagine that rearranging the furniture in your living room could cause the roof to catch fire, or the paint on the basement walls to change color, and that putting out the fire or repainting could cause the doors to falloff and the furniture to reset to its original configuration.
From the Triassic to the Holocene, from Pangaea through the breakup of the supercontinent into what eventually became the modern configuration of continents, he liked to find his pencils sharp and where he expected them to be.
After studying the records of the last encounter, Ben had learned how the configuration of the icosahedral artifact anticipated the direction of the resulting beam.
Ben had learned how the configuration of the icosahedral artifact anticipated the direction of the resulting beam.