configuration

configuration

English

Etymology

From Middle French configuration, from Latin cōnfigūrātiō.Morphologically configure +‎ -ation

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kənˌfɪɡ.əˈreɪ.ʃən/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kənˌfɪɡ.jəˈreɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

configuration (countable and uncountable, plural configurations)

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 things are arranged or put together in order to achieve a result.
4. (physics, chemistry) The arrangement of electrons in an atom, molecule, or other physical structure like a crystal.
5. (algebra) A finite set of points and lines (and sometimes planes), generally with equal numbers of points per line and equal numbers of lines per point.

Synonyms

• (form): constitution; see also Thesaurus:composition

Coordinate terms

• (chemistry): conformation

Derived terms

• configuration section
• Cremona-Richmond configuration
• Desargues configuration
• electron configuration
• software configuration management
• source configuration management

 

Related terms

• configure
• configurator

Translations

relative disposition

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: փոխդասավորութուն (pʿoxdasavorutʿun), ուրվագիծ (hy) (urvagic) Bulgarian: конфигура́ция (bg) f (konfigurácija) Catalan: configuració f Chinese: Mandarin: 編排／编排 (zh) (biānpái), 配置 (zh) (pèizhì), 佈局／布局 (zh) (bùjú) Esperanto: agordo Estonian: asetus Finnish: rakenne (fi) French: configuration (fr) German: Konfiguration (de) f Icelandic: stilling f Indonesian: konfigurasi (id) Irish: imchruth m Italian: configurazione (it) f Japanese: 構成 (ja) (こうせい, kōsei), 配置 (ja) (はいち, haichi), 設定 (ja) (せってい, settei), コンフィギュレーション (konfigyurēshon) Malay: tatarajah, tatabentuk Norman: confidguthâtion f (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: konfigurasjon m Nynorsk: konfigurasjon m Polish: konfiguracja (pl) f Portuguese: configuração (pt) f Romanian: configurație (ro) f, dispunere (ro) f, configurare (ro) f Russian: конфигура́ция (ru) f (konfigurácija) Spanish: configuración (es) f Swedish: konfiguration (sv) c, konfigurering c, inställning (sv) c Thai: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: конфігура́ція f (konfihurácija) Vietnamese: cấu hình (vi) (構型)

The way things are arranged or put together in order to achieve a result.

Maori: whiringahora

arrangement of electrons

Arabic: تَهايُؤ‎ m (tahāyuʾ) Catalan: configuració f Chinese: Mandarin: 排布 (zh) (páibù) Czech: konfigurace f Estonian: asetus Finnish: konfiguraatio, elektronikonfiguraatio French: configuration (fr) German: Konfiguration (de) f Indonesian: konfigurasi (id) Kazakh: конфигурация (konfigurasiä) Kyrgyz: конфигурация (konfiguratsiya) Malay: konfigurasi Maori: whakanaha Norwegian: Bokmål: konfigurasjon m Nynorsk: konfigurasjon m Persian: پیکربندی‎ (fa) (peykarbandī), پیکرال‎ (fa) Romanian: configurație (ro) f Russian: конфигура́ция (ru) f (konfigurácija) Swedish: elektronkonfiguration c Ukrainian: конфігура́ція f (konfihurácija) Vietnamese: cấu hình (vi) (構型)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fi.ɡy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

configuration f (plural configurations)

1. configuration

Related terms

• configurer

Further reading

• “configuration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.