configuration
noun
the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
configurations
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pluralof configuration.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The venue's official seated capacity is just under 74,000, but boxing configurations allow for even larger crowds.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The album is loaded with Anthrax trademarks — serrated, crunchy riffs, soaring lead vocals, bludgeoning beats, and scorching guitar — but there are also galactic noise effects, angular song structures and atypical chord configurations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
A posse of extras clad in white jumpsuits and little black aprons would occasionally flood the set, tidying up and moving the furniture into new configurations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“By combining applied AI with decades of sophisticated business rules, regulatory compliance, security models, data models and customer configurations, we enable customers to continuously realize AI’s value,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
This work on inflationary models showed that the present state of the universe could have arisen from quite a large number of different initial configurations.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
