Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of conforming or the state of being conformed.
- noun The structure or outline of an item or entity, determined by the arrangement of its parts.
- noun A symmetrical arrangement of the parts of a thing.
- noun One of the spatial arrangements of atoms in a molecule that can come about through free rotation of the atoms about a chemical bond.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The manner in which a body is formed; the particular texture or structure of a body, or the arrangement and relation of the parts which compose it; form; structure.
- noun The act of conforming or adjusting; the act of producing suitableness or conformity: with to.
- noun The becoming similar in respect of form; approach or reduction to formal resemblance: said of words.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.
- noun The state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on the arrangement of parts; form; arrangement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of conforming; the act of producing
conformity . - noun The state of being conformed;
agreement ; hence;structure , as depending on thearrangement of parts;form ; arrangement. - noun chemistry The spatial
arrangement of theatoms in amolecule as a result ofrotation about asingle bond
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a symmetrical arrangement of the parts of a thing
- noun acting according to certain accepted standards
- noun any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
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Examples
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I still vote for the Madagascar Fossa - the conformation is an excellent fit.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel! Darren Naish 2007
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Knowledge of the conformation is therefore of great importance for explaining or predicting the mode of reaction of a certain molecule.
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The conformation is extremely close to what I remember.
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How proteins fold into their ideal conformation is a question that has tantalized scientists for decades.
Boing Boing: October 20, 2002 - October 26, 2002 Archives 2002
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Obviously, such a conformation is fraught with difficulties, We must take issue with those who claim that the fact of our two founding peoples is somehow a myth.
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The conformation is of great importance for the mode of reaction of the molecules.
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The conformation is the shape, which the molecule really assumes, utilizing the flexibility.
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What is then the conformation, which is of interest here to-day?
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The nut must be of fair size, of good flavor, thin to medium thickness of shell, well filled, and of good cracking quality -- that is, the conformation of the shell and kernel must be such that a large percentage of the kernels can be taken out as whole halves, and the convolutions of the kernels must be wide enough that the partitions do not adhere to them.
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One recalling the conformation of this country, with its three and a half millions of inhabitants, can easily understand that although fused into a solid political union, and although recognizable amongst the other northern nations by certain traits peculiar to the inhabitants of all its provinces, it must nevertheless present a great variety.
Holland, v. 1 (of 2) Edmondo De Amicis 1877
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