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Configuration

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Configuration or configurations may refer to:

Computing

  • Computer configuration or system configuration
  • Configuration file, a software file used to configure the initial settings for a computer program
  • Configurator, also known as choice board, design system, or co-design platform, used in product design to capture customers' specifications
  • Configure script ("./configure" in Unix), the output of Autotools; used to detect system configuration
  • CONFIG.SYS, the primary configuration file for DOS and OS/2 operating systems

Mathematics

  • Configuration (geometry), a finite set of points and lines with certain properties
  • Configuration (polytope), special kind of configuration for regular polytopes
  • Configuration space (mathematics), a space representing assignments of points to non-overlapping positions on a topological space

Physics

  • Configuration space (physics), in classical mechanics, the vector space formed by the parameters of a system
  • Electron configuration, the distribution of electrons of an atom or molecule
  • Molecular configuration, the permanent geometry that results from the spatial arrangement of molecular bonds
  • Configuron, a quasiparticle

Other uses

  • Configuration (locomotive parts), denoting the number of leading, driving, and trailing axles on a locomotive
  • Configuration management, a systems engineering quality control process
  • Configurational analysis, a method of studying human behaviour.
  • Configurations (journal), an academic journal established in 1993 by the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts

See also

  • All pages with titles containing configuration
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