conformation

Academic Word List, sublist 8.

About 1.85 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.
2. noun The state of being conformed; agreement
3. noun Structure, the arrangement of parts of some thing; form; arrangement.
4. noun The spatial arrangement of a group of atoms in a molecule as a result of rotation about a covalent bond which remains unbroken.

Similar words

conformity compliance abidance confirmation configuration structure form arrangement shape constitution

Often followed by

of and is in to with that for or

Word family

conform conformability conformable conformance conformational conformations conformed conforming conformist conformists