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How to pronounce configuration in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms constellation
Type of plan, design
Has types chunking, unitisation, topology, redundancy, network topology, unitization
Derivation configure


the outcome depends on the configuration of influences at the time.
Type Words
Synonyms conformation, contour, form, shape
Type of spatial property, spatiality
Has types keenness, lobularity, narrowing, crookedness, convexness, convexity, roundness, sharpness, straightness, stratification, topography, concavity, concaveness, bluntness, angularity, curvature, curve, dullness

Examples of configuration

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We have reached the limit of what our experiment can do with this configuration.
From the sciencedaily.com
Sports configuration adds 18in alloys, sports suspension and leather upholstery.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Remember the Airbus A380 configuration with separate cabins and your own shower?
From the abcnews.go.com
The new seating configuration might make good tickets harder to come by, though.
From the toledoblade.com
I then took down the sip configuration data from the onsip account I had set up.
From the avc.com
When the high pressures were eased, the boron remained in the new configuration.
From the nytimes.com
OpenSkies is also refitting the cabin into a three-class, 82-seat configuration.
From the foxbusiness.com
Maintains data files and monitors system configuration to ensure data integrity.
From the jobview.monster.com
Must be knowledgeable in multi-technology site configuration and implementation.
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More examples
  • An arrangement of parts or elements; "the outcome depends on the configuration of influences at the time"
  • Shape: any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline); "he could barely make out their shapes"
  • (configure) set up for a particular purpose; "configure my new computer"; "configure a plane for a combat mission"
  • (configured) organized so as to give configuration to; "a magnet is surrounded by a configured field"
  • In mathematics, specifically projective geometry, a configuration in the plane consists of a finite set of points, and a finite arrangement of lines, such that each point is incident to the same number of lines and each line is incident to the same number of points.
  • The Whyte notation for classifying steam locomotives by wheel arrangement was devised by Frederick Methvan Whyte and came into use in the early twentieth century encouraged by an editorial in American Engineer and Railroad Journal (December 1900). ...
  • Configurations is an academic journal founded in 1993 and the official publication of the Society for Literature, Science, and Arts. It is the only journal devoted to the study of discourse in science, technology, and medicine. ...
  • (Configure (script)) Software developers have an issue when trying to have software run on a wide variety of operating systems and distributions which are customizations of operating systems. ...
  • Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing's shape; figure; form factor; Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time; The way things are arranged or put together in order to ...