conformation

Etymology

From Latin confōrmātiō.

noun

1. The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.
2. The state of being conformed; agreement
   I was much struck with the gaiety of the creoles , whose exterior told a stranger that education had been doing something among them in these solitudes ; and as all the parties kissed the Bible in conformation with the law of England 1866, William Lobscheid, Chinese Emigration to the West Indies
3. Structure, the arrangement of parts of some thing; form; arrangement.
   One may see well the advantages of this form from the coach - box of our heavily - loaded public vehicles , where animals of different conformation are yoked together 1853, David Low, On the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands
4. (chemistry) The spatial arrangement of a group of atoms in a molecule as a result of rotation about a covalent bond which remains unbroken.
   The more stable conformation has the methyl group in an equatorial position , since this minimizes repulsions between axial substituents 1980, Bernard Miller, Organic Chemistry, the Basis of Life