configuration
pronunciation
How to pronounce configuration in British English:
UK [kənˌfɪɡəˈreɪʃn]
How to pronounce configuration in American English:
US [kənˌfɪɡjəˈreɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- an arrangement of parts or elements
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
Word Origin
- configuration (n.)
- 1550s, from Latin configurationem (nominative configuratio), noun of action from past participle stem of configurare (see configure).
Example
- 1. This configuration does not deliver a system without frictions or attritions .
- 2. He is setting up a mosaic configuration or galaxy for insight ......
- 3. We 've become inured to slow test-system configuration times .
- 4. This unique project exists of 43 floating private islands in a archipelago configuration .
- 5. Mr cooper 's game is foldit , in which players score points by squeezing proteins into the most chemically stable configuration .