conformation

From Latin confōrmātiō.

• IPA^(key): /kɑnfɚˈmeɪʃən/, /kɑn.foʊɹˈmeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Homophone: confirmation (in some dialects)

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conformation (countable and uncountable, plural conformations)

1. The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.
2. The state of being conformed; agreement
   • 1866, William Lobscheid, Chinese Emigration to the West Indies:

     I was much struck with the gaiety of the creoles , whose exterior told a stranger that education had been doing something among them in these solitudes ; and as all the parties kissed the Bible in conformation with the law of England

3. Structure, the arrangement of parts of some thing; form; arrangement.
   • 1853, David Low, On the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands:

     One may see well the advantages of this form from the coach - box of our heavily - loaded public vehicles , where animals of different conformation are yoked together

4. (physical chemistry) The spatial arrangement of a group of atoms in a molecule as a result of rotation about a covalent bond which remains unbroken.
   • 1980, Bernard Miller, Organic Chemistry, the Basis of Life:

     The more stable conformation has the methyl group in an equatorial position , since this minimizes repulsions between axial substituents

• (act of conforming): conformance

• conform
• conformity

• allostery
• configuration

• Conformational isomerism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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conformation f (plural conformations)

1. conformation

• “conformation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

conformation (plural conformationes)

1. conformation