configuration

When you position items into any spatial arrangement, you are creating a configuration, or specific shape. For example, scientists refer to the specific, bonded arrangement of atoms to make a molecule as a configuration.

The root of configuration presents pretty much the current meaning, with the Latin configūrāre meaning "to mold or shape." You can see the word figure in the middle, which presents the idea of a physical form that's being shaped. As an example: the specific configuration, or arrangement, of the genes in your DNA is what makes you the unique individual that you are.

Definitions of configuration

n an arrangement of parts or elements

“the outcome depends on the configuration of influences at the time”

Synonyms:: constellation

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(electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails; network topology, topology
the configuration of a communication network; chunking, unitisation, unitization
(psychology) the configuration of smaller units of information into large coordinated units; bus, bus topology
the topology of a network whose components are connected by a busbar; loop, loop topology
the topology of a network whose components are serially connected in such a way that the last component is connected to the first component; star, star topology
the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub; mesh, mesh topology
the topology of a network whose components are all connected directly to every other component; physical topology
the appearance of the network; logical topology
the way the network works

Type of:: design, plan
an arrangement scheme

n any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)

Synonyms:: conformation, contour, form, shape

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thinness of edge or fineness of point; bluntness, dullness
without sharpness or clearness of edge or point; topography
the configuration of a surface and the relations among its man-made and natural features; lobularity
the property of having lobules; concaveness, concavity
the property possessed by a concave shape; convexity, convexness
the property possessed by a convex shape; angularity
the property possessed by a shape that has angles; narrowing
an instance of becoming narrow; curvature, curve
the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface; roundness
the property possessed by a line or surface that is curved and not angular; straightness
freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles; crookedness
having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles; stratification
a layered configuration; acuteness
the quality of having a sharp edge or point; obtuseness
the quality of lacking a sharp edge or point; hollowness
the property of having a sunken area; bulginess, roundedness
the property possessed by a rounded convexity; coarctation
(biology) a narrowing or constriction of a vessel or canal; especially a congenital narrowing of the aorta; taper
the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone); oblongness, rectangularity
the property of being shaped like a rectangle; triangularity
the property of being shaped like a triangle; globosity, globularness, rotundity, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity
the roundness of a 3-dimensional object; cylindricality, cylindricalness
the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder; circularity, disk shape
the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure; curliness, waviness
(of hair) a tendency to curl; straightness
(of hair) lack of a tendency to curl; bottleneck, chokepoint, constriction
a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel

Type of:: spatial property, spatiality
any property relating to or occupying space

n an arrangement of parts or elements

n any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)

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