configuratie

Borrowed from French configuration, from Latin cōnfigūrātiō. Equivalent to configureren +‎ -atie.

• IPA^(key): /kɔn.fi.ɣyˈraː.(t)si/

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• Hyphenation: con‧fi‧gu‧ra‧tie
• Rhymes: -aːtsi

configuratie f (plural configuraties, diminutive configuratietje n)

1. configuration (form of a thing, as depending on the relative placement of the parts of a thing's shape)
2. configuration (relative positions of a set of things)
   1. (astrology) configuration (aspect of the planets)
3. (physics, chemistry) configuration (arrangement of electrons in an atom, molecule, or other physical structure like a crystal)

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “configuratie”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute