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 (tahāyuʔ)
• 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) (peykarbandi), پیکرال‎ (fa)
• Romanian: configurație (ro) f
• Russian: конфигура́ция (ru) f (konfigurácija)
• Swedish: elektronkonfiguration c
• Ukrainian: конфігура́ція f (konfihurácija)
• Vietnamese: cấu hình (vi) (構型)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fi.ɡy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

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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.