conformation

From Latin confōrmātiō. By surface analysis, conform +‎ -ation.

• 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

4. Structure, the arrangement of parts of some thing; form; arrangement.
   • 1650, John Bulwer, “The First Scene. Certain Fashions of the Head, Affected and Contrived by the Pragmatical Invention and Artificial Endeavours of Many Nations.”, in Anthropometamorphosis: Man Transform’d; or, The Artificial Changeling. […], London: […] J. Hardesty, […], →OCLC, page 1:

     Sennertus [Daniel Sennert] alſo, vvhere he vvrites De morbis Figuræ, reckons amongſt other cauſes of the ill conformation of mens heads, That they are novv and then induced after the birth, vvhilſt the tender Heads of Infants are by Midvvives and Nurſes formed after a divers manner, vvhile they are involved in head-bands, & moulded vvith their hands, according to their irregular and varying phanſies.

   • 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

5. (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