Conformation
[kɒnfɔː'meɪʃ(ə)n] or [,kɑnfɔr'meʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.
(n.) The state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on the arrangement of parts; form; arrangement.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Accordance, compliance, agreement, conformity.[2]. Configuration, structure, form, figure, shape.
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Examples
- Being an orphan of a chubby conformation, he then took to rolling, and had rolled into the gutter before they could come up. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Yet I did not heed the bleakness of the weather; I was better fitted by my conformation for the endurance of cold than heat. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I can tell that by the conformation of your brain and the strange location of your internal organs and the shape and size of your heart. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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