conformation

Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.
  2. (countable, uncountable) The state of being conformed; agreement
  3. (countable, uncountable) Structure, the arrangement of parts of some thing; form; arrangement.
  4. (countable, physical, uncountable) The spatial arrangement of a group of atoms in a molecule as a result of rotation about a covalent bond which remains unbroken.

Pronounced as (IPA)
/kɑnfɚˈmeɪʃən/
Etymology

From Latin confōrmātiō.

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