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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
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1828 Definition
CONFIGURA'TION, n. [L.]
1913 Definition
Form, as depending
on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing; shape;
figure.
It is the variety of configurations [of the
mouth] . . . which gives birth and origin to the several
vowels. Relative position or
aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to
the relative positions of the planets at any time.
They [astrologers] undertook . . . to determine
the course of a man's character and life from the
configuration of the stars at the moment of his birth. the spatial arrangement
of atoms in a molecule as determined by the covalent bonds
between them; the three-dimensional structure that cannot be
changed without breaking the covalent bonds between atoms of a
molecule. It is distinguished from conformation, which is
the exact relative location in space of all of the atoms of a
molecule, which may vary at different times or in different
environments.
[PJC] a specification of
the parts of a computer system, consisting of the essential
components of the computer plus the complete set of all internal
and external devices directly attached to it; as, by the year
2000, a microcomputer configuration without a CD-ROM or
DVD drive will be unsalable.
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