configuration

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Arrangement of parts or elements.
2. n. The form, as of a figure, determined by the arrangement of its parts or elements. See Synonyms at form.
3. n. Psychology Gestalt.
4. n. Chemistry The structural arrangement of atoms in a compound or molecule.
5. n. Computer Science The way in which a computer system is set up: changed the configuration by resetting the parameters.
6. n. Computer Science The set of constituent components, such as memory, a hard disk, a monitor, and an operating system, that make up a computer system.
7. n. Computer Science The way that the components of a computer network are connected.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. External form, figure, or shape, especially as resulting from the disposition and relation of the parts; external aspect or appearance: contour.
2. n. In astrology, relative position or aspect of the planets.
3. n. In modern astron., any noticeable grouping of stars which may aid in identifying them.
4. n. In analytical mechanics, the relative positions of the parts of a system at any moment.
5. n. In geometry, a ruled surface considered as a locus of rays; also, a system of three linear complexes.
6. n. A system of a finite number of points with their duals.
7. n. In organic chemistry, the arrangement of the atoms within the molecule, especially that arrangement in space which occasions optical activity.
8. n. A tetrastim with dots in A tetragram with sides in a a conic range has each pair conic pencil has each pair of of codots costraight with a diagonals copunctal with a pair of fan points of the pair of connectors of the tetragram of tangents at tetrastim of contacts on the the dots. sides.

Wiktionary

1. n. Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing's shape; figure; form factor.
2. n. Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.
3. n. The way things are arranged or put together in order to achieve a result.
4. n. The arrangement of electrons in an atom, molecule, or other physical structure like a crystal.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing; shape; figure.
2. n. Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
2. n. an arrangement of parts or elements