configuration

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1. Physical layout, interconnections, and functional characteristics of a computer system (usually called Configuration Item), set forth in its technical documentation as required for its assembly, testing, installation, operation, and maintenance.
2. Preferred hardware-software arrangement (specific to a particular computing environment) involving dip-switch settings, interface settings, jumper settings, hardware drivers, software options, etc., that determines what the system will do and how its parts will interact.