Configuration
Configuration noun - The arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form.
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Kind and configuration are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Kind" instead a noun "Configuration".
Nearby Words: configure, configured, configurable, configuring, configurator
Kind
Kind noun - A number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common.
Configuration and kind are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Configuration" instead a noun "Kind".
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| physical | physical configuration | physical kind |
| rare | rare configuration | rare kind |
| special | special configuration | special kind |
| particular | particular configuration | particular kind |
| Other adjectives: similar, normal, common, specific, right, complete, certain, standard, original, single, wrong, new, unique, unusual, strange, last, insane, different, magical, imaginable. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- Ghostbusters: The Video Game kind of touches upon this, especially in the Public Library section, whose second half takes place in the library's Gozerian configuration (one of millions of theoretical configurations).
Source: Layered World -
How it is built looks difficult to describe, but the blade's bulk and its unusual configuration (it's made from an animal vertebral column) probably help to shelter some kind of magnetic mechanism to keep it extended while used as a sword.
Source: Film / Brotherhood of the Wolf
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