The term configuration has several meanings.
In computing it may refer to:
- Computer configuration or system configuration
- Configure (computing) is the output of Autotools and used to detect system configuration. This is referred to as "./configure" in Unix Unix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna. Today's Unix systems are split into various branches, developed over time by AT&T as well as various commercial vendors and non-profit
- Configuration file In computing, configuration files, or config files configure the initial settings for some computer programs. They are used for user applications, server processes and operating system settings. The files are often written in ASCII and line-oriented, with lines terminated by a newline or carriage return/line feed pair, depending on the operating is a software file used to configure the initial settings for a computer program
Other usages include:
- Electron configuration In atomic physics and quantum chemistry, electron configuration is the arrangement of electrons of an atom, a molecule, or other physical structure. It concerns the way electrons can be distributed in the orbitals of the given system
- Configuration (geometry)
- Configuration space In classical mechanics, the configuration space is the space of possible positions that a physical system may attain, possibly subject to external constraints. The configuration space of a typical system has the structure of a manifold; for this reason it is also called the configuration manifold
- Molecular configuration The configuration of a molecule is the permanent geometry that results from the spatial arrangement of its bonds. The ability of the same set of atoms to form two or more molecules with different configurations is stereoisomerism. Configuration is distinct from chemical conformation, a shape attainable by bond rotations
- Configuration management Configuration management is a field of management that focuses on establishing and maintaining consistency of a system's or product's performance and its functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life. For information assurance, CM can be defined as the management of security is a management discipline
- Configuration (locomotive parts)
- In Historical Behaviour Studies, configuration is a pattern of historical behaviour
See also
- CONFIG.SYS, the primary configuration file for the MS-DOS and OS/2 operating systems.
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