Configuration

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Configuration may refer to:

In 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 (computing) ("./configure" in Unix), the output of Autotools; used to detect system configuration
• CONFIG.SYS, the primary configuration file for the MS-DOS and OS/2 operating systems

In physics:

• Configuration space, 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
• Configurons – elementary configurational excitations in amorphous materials which involve breaking of chemical bonds and associated strain-releasing local adjustment of centres of atomic vibration^[1]

Other uses:

• Configuration (geometry), a finite set of points and lines with certain properties
• Configuration (locomotive parts), denoting the number of leading, driving, and trailing axles on a locomotive
• Configuration management, a systems engineering quality control process
• In historical behaviour studies, a pattern of human behaviour

See also

• All pages with a title containing configuration

References