Word Meanings - CONFIGURATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time. They undertook . . . to determine the course of a man's character and life from the configuration of the stars

Additional info about word: CONFIGURATION

Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time. They undertook . . . to determine the course of a man's character and life from the configuration of the stars at the moment of his birth. Whewell. (more info) 1. Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure. It is the variety of configurations . . . which gives birth and origin to the several vowels. Harris.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONFIGURATION)

• Dimension
• Measurement
• size
• configuration
• delineation
• mass
• bulk
• extent

Related words: (words related to CONFIGURATION)

• DELINEATION
  1. The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from
• DIMENSIONAL
  Pertaining to dimension.
• DIMENSION
  The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension. (more info) to measure out; di- = dis- + metiri to measure: cf. F. dimension. See 1. Measure in a single line,
• CONFIGURATION
  Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time. They undertook . . . to determine the course of a man's character and life from the configuration of the stars
• DIMENSIONED
  Having dimensions.
• EXTENT
  Extended. Spenser.
• MEASUREMENT
  1. The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required. 2. The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.
• DIMENSIONLESS
  Without dimensions; having no appreciable or noteworthy extent. Milton.
• UNIDIMENSIONAL
  Having but one dimension. See Dimension.
• MISMEASUREMENT
  Wrong measurement.
• TRIDIMENSIONAL
  Having three dimensions; extended in three different directions.
• PREDELINEATION
  Previous delineation.