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Example sentences for "configuration"

Lexicographically close words:
confidentially; confidently; confides; confiding; confidingly; configurations; configured; confine; confined; confinement
  1. When operating in a squad configuration and in the conventional mode, the two CBPS systems may be complexed to provide more workspace.

  2. Forward surgical team and division clearing station configuration for operations in a nuclear, biological, chemical environment.

  3. They are chiefly found in Lower Nubia, a fact which has sometimes been explained by the natural configuration of the soil.

  4. Do the various signs merely indicate the shape or configuration of the different constellations included in the divisions, or, are they simply masks designed to veil some hidden meaning?

  5. The second part stands for the fourth principle of the septenary man, as denoting the configuration of his knowledge or desires.

  6. In other words, what is there that presides over the preservation of the species, working out the miniature duplicate of the parents' configuration and character?

  7. A good example of this configuration occurs near the town of Melilli, as seen in the annexed view (fig.

  8. The theory advanced to account for the configuration of Palma, commonly called the "elevation crater theory," is this.

  9. That region had already acquired in some degree its present configuration before any volcanos were in activity, and before any igneous matter was superimposed upon the granitic and fossiliferous formations.

  10. The only difference in the external configuration of the fresh lavas would consist in this, that they would nowhere be intersected by ravines, or exhibit marks of erosion by running water.

  11. This configuration appears to be derived from two causes.

  12. Climatic distribution of heat in the atmosphere, as the effect of the relative position of transparent and opaque masses (fluid and solid superficial area), and of the hypsometrical configuration of continents.

  13. The position of this line and its secular change of configuration have been made an object of careful investigation in modern times.

  14. Importance of the eruption of quartzose, porphyry with reference to the then existing configuration of continental masses.

  15. These configuration files may contain application start-up information, run-time settings and application shutdown settings.

  16. They hold everything from documentation to configuration files.

  17. However, you might want to erase the configuration files too, so dpkg also provides a -purge option.

  18. Configuration Files Many applications on Linux systems allow you to alter how they behave at certain times by altering files containing configuration information.

  19. This means you're creating a configuration file, /etc/wvdial.

  20. System-Wide Versus User-Specific Configuration It's important to remember that there are two different kinds of configurations on a Debian system.

  21. In general, a configuration filename is based on the name of the application for which it contains settings.

  22. It might include libraries, data files like game scenarios or icons, configuration files, manual pages, and documentation.

  23. Such a naming convention allows you to more readily determine which configuration file contains settings for a given application.

  24. In fact, nearly all the files in /etc are configuration files.

  25. Your home directory is where you put all your personal work, e-mail and other documents, and personal configuration preferences.

  26. A configuration file is defined as any file you might have edited in order to customize the program for your system or your preferences.

  27. To compare the two ways of finding files, pretend you can't remember where the X configuration file XF86Config resides.

  28. So far as the configuration of the country admits, the blocks are to be in the shape of parallelograms, of which the length is not more than double the breadth.

  29. The configuration of the northern country, the form and extent of the seas, certainly the character of the straits and islands, were to them little known.

  30. What, then, is the freedom of the Will worth (it may be asked) if the direction it takes is at the mercy of the physical configuration of our brain-matter?

  31. The gradual growth of these enormous dams has the effect of greatly altering the configuration of the country where they occur.

  32. If an engineer has to build a railway, knowledge of the exact height above sea-level of various points and of the general configuration of the ground is of more value than knowledge of its beauty.

  33. A soldier must know with extreme accuracy the configuration of the country over which his army is operating.

  34. When our thoughts go back to the home country it is not on its exact measurements and configuration that they dwell, but on its beauty.

  35. Its configuration is nearly three parts of a circle.

  36. The configuration of the mountains brings about misleading optical conditions and illusions of perspective; a pine-tree a hundred feet in height looks to be a mere weed; wide valleys look as narrow as meadow paths.

  37. He put back the skin in the frame where it had been enclosed but lately, drew a line in red ink about the actual configuration of the talisman, and seated himself in his armchair.

  38. This sketch may serve to give a general idea of the geological configuration of the ground.

  39. But the operation of this influence of climate, and of the configuration of the soil, is felt in all its force only among a race of men who, endowed with a happy organization of the mental faculties, are susceptible of exterior impulse.

  40. This change in the geological configuration of the shore extends far beyond the mouth of the Apure.

  41. From this extraordinary configuration of the land, the little rivers of the valleys of Aragua form a peculiar system, and direct their course towards a basin closed on all sides.

  42. The general configuration of this external halo, spreading more particularly in the equatorial zone, is sufficiently like that of the eclipse of 1889, published in my Popular Astronomy, which also corresponded with a minimum of solar energy.

  43. No definite geographical configuration can be discovered on her, despite the hopes of the eighteenth-century astronomers.

  44. The cranium, however, which is better-preserved, the mandibles and certain details of the general configuration lead me to suspect the larva of a Lamellicorn.

  45. As a matter of fact, a similar configuration recurs, in varying degrees, in the larvae of the Digger-wasps whose ration consists of a bulky quarry which takes a long time to consume.

  46. Here we again had an opportunity of observing the configuration of which all known atolls furnish examples, viz.

  47. To understand the general plan of Cliff Palace it is necessary to take into consideration the method of formation and the configuration of the cave floor on which the ruin stands.

  48. Usually the buildings are continuous where the configuration of the cliffs permitted such construction.

  49. There are several other ruins in the Mesa Verde Park in which the configuration of the rear of the cave led to the construction of the cliff-house in terrace form.

  50. The configuration of Spruce-tree House cave and that of Cliff Palace, and the relation of its floor to the talus, also differ.

  51. Griesbach considers that the general outline of the land configuration has remained much the same since Pliocene times, and that the force which brought about the wrinkling of the older deposits still continues to add fold on fold.

  52. Like Erasistratus, he appears to have studied carefully the configuration of the brain; and though, like him, he distinguishes the nerves into those of sensation and those of voluntary motion, he adds to them the ligaments and tendons.

  53. Although Algeria enjoys a warm climate, the temperature varies considerably in different parts, according to the elevation and configuration of the country.

  54. The general configuration of the Turkestan highlands has been already indicated.

  55. Fitzgerald) from a structure of tangled or interlaced vortex filaments pervading its substance, which might conceivably arrange themselves into a stable configuration and so resist deformation.

  56. Its configuration is irregular, the greatest length from north to south being about 80 m.

  57. That the rhythm of these events is ultimately based on harmony in the configuration and motion of the molecules within the germ seems an unavoidable conclusion.

  58. We must regard the organism as a configuration which is so contrived as to evade the tendency of the universal laws of nature.

  59. Last and most stable of all is the gradually built-up configuration due to long-continued light exposure.

  60. It was possible to construct matter by their summation or linkage as the configuration of the crystal is possible in the clear supersaturated liquid.

  61. But the fact that so many fires which we know to be of brief duration are scattered through a region of space, and the fact of a configuration which we believe to be a transitory ore, suggest their simultaneous aggregation here and there.

  62. But at one moment in the infinite duration the requisite configuration of the elementary motions is attained; solely by the one chance disposition the stability of all must go, spreading from the fateful point.

  63. This is the land of the Brahui, and the flat wall of its frontier limestone barrier is one of the most remarkable features in the configuration of the whole line of Indian borderland.

  64. Owing to its physical configuration Baden presents great extremes of heat and cold.

  65. This configuration is called lahĂșñgan[4] and is very inauspicious.

  66. His physical configuration gives one the impression that he is undersized.

  67. Of these are all the irritative ideas already explained, as when the retina of the eye imitates by its action or configuration the tree or the bench, which I shun in walking past without attending to them.

  68. Hence the configuration is not to be considered as an effect of the motion of the organ, but rather as a part or temporary termination of it; and that, whether a pause succeeds it, or a new configuration immediately takes place.

  69. After the Union army passed the river and Chattanooga fell into our hands; we still kept pressing the enemy's communications, and the configuration of the country necessitated more or less isolation of the different corps.

  70. He then sent Wheeler's cavalry north of the Tennessee, and, aided greatly by the configuration of the ground, held us in a state of partial siege, which serious rains might convert into a complete investment.


  71. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "configuration" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.