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English
Etymology
From Middle French configuration, from Latin cōnfigūrātiō.
Morphologically configure + -ation
Pronunciation
Noun
configuration (countable and uncountable, plural configurations)
- The form of a thing, as depending on the relative placement of the parts of a thing's shape.
- Synonyms: constitution, figure, form factor; see also Thesaurus:composition
- The relative positions of a set of things; the way things are arranged or put together;
- (astrology) The aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.
- (countable, physics, chemistry) The arrangement of electrons in an atom, molecule, or other physical structure like a crystal.
- (countable, 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.
- (countable, computing) The way a computing environment (physical or software) is set up or customized to the needs of its users.
- (uncountable, computing) The process of customizing a computing environment in this way.
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Translations
relative positions of a set of things
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: փոխդասավորութուն (pʻoxdasavorutʻun), ուրվագիծ (hy) (urvagic)
- Bengali: কান্ফিগিউরেইশ্ন্ (kanphigiureiśn)
- 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)
- Kazakh: пішіндеме (pışındeme)
- Malay: tatarajah, tatabentuk
- Maori: whiringahora
- 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)
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astrology: aspect of the planets
physics, chemistry: arrangement of electrons
algebra: finite set of points and lines
computing: the way a computing environment is set up
computing: process of customizing a computing environment
French
Pronunciation
Noun
configuration f (plural configurations)
- configuration
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