CONFIGURATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does configuration mean? 

• CONFIGURATION (noun)
  The noun CONFIGURATION has 2 senses:

1. an arrangement of parts or elements

2. any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)

  Familiarity information: CONFIGURATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFIGURATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arrangement of parts or elements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

configuration; constellation

Context example:

the outcome depends on the configuration of influences at the time

Hypernyms ("configuration" is a kind of...):

design; plan (an arrangement scheme)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "configuration"):

redundancy ((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)

Derivation:

configure (set up for a particular purpose)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

configuration; conformation; contour; form; shape

Context example:

he could barely make out their shapes

Hypernyms ("configuration" is a kind of...):

spatial property; spatiality (any property relating to or occupying space)

Attribute:

straight (having no deviations)

crooked (having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "configuration"):

keenness; sharpness (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)

 Context examples 

It is important for the quantification of image features that many numerical values associated with the scanner configuration and protocol used be given.

(DICOM Header Tag, NCI Thesaurus)

Many cells contain mucin droplets, producing a signet-ring configuration.

(Diffuse Gastric Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The configuration at each double bond is determined by the priority of the side groups and whether the highest priority groups are on the same or opposite side.

(E-Z Notation, NCI Thesaurus)

The outline of a part; the surface configuration.

(Contour, NCI Thesaurus)

In years when you have this enchanting configuration, you always tend to do exceedingly well.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Bisantrene intercalates with and disrupts the configuration of DNA, resulting in DNA single-strand breaks, DNA-protein crosslinking, and inhibition of DNA replication.

(Bisantrene, NCI Thesaurus)

A description of the boundary configuration of a sample.

(Border Shape, NCI Thesaurus)

A monounsaturated very long-chain fatty acid with a 22-carbon backbone and a single double bond originating from the 9th position from the methyl end, with the double bond in the trans- configuration.

(Brassidic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Ca2+ interacts with loop residues in a pentagonal bipyramidal configuration; each loop residue is important for Ca2+ coordination.

(EF-Hand Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

Each code is a unique 10-digit, 3-segment number in one of the following configurations: 4-4-2, 5-3-2, or 5-4-1.

(FDA National Drug Code, NCI Thesaurus)