Configuration or configurations may refer to: Computing Computer configuration or system configuration Configuration file, a software file used to configure the initial settings for a computer program Configurator, also known as choice board, design system, or co-design platform, used in product design to capture customers' specifications Configure script ("./configure" in Unix), the output of Autotools; used to detect system configuration CONFIG.SYS, the primary configuration file for DOS and OS/2 operating systems Mathematics Configuration (geometry), a finite set of points and lines with certain properties Configuration (polytope), special kind of configuration for regular polytopes Configuration space (mathematics), a space representing assignments of points to non-overlapping positions on a topological space Physics Configuration space (physics), in classical mechanics, the vector space formed by the parameters of a system Electron configuration, the distribution of electrons of an atom or molecule Molecular configuration, the permanent geometry that results from the spatial arrangement of molecular bonds Configuron, a quasiparticle Other uses Configuration (locomotive parts), denoting the number of leading, driving, and trailing axles on a locomotive Configuration management, a systems engineering quality control process Configurational analysis, a method of studying human behaviour. Configurations (journal), an academic journal established in 1993 by the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts See also