Configuration

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

History

• Historical configuration of the province of Granada

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