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con⋅fig⋅ure

  [kuhn-fig-yer]
Use configure in a Sentence
–verb (used with object), -ured, -ur⋅ing.
1. to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
2. Computers.
a. to put (a computer system) together by supplying a specific computer with appropriate peripheral devices, as a monitor and disk drive, and connecting them.
b. to insert batch files into (a program) to enable it to run with a particular computer.
Origin:
back formation from configuration
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con·fig·ure   (kən-fĭg'yər)   
tr.v.   con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures
To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: a military vehicle that was configured for rough terrain; configured the computer by setting the system's parameters.

[Middle English configuren, from Old French configurer, from Latin cōnfigūrāre : com-, com- + figūrāre, to form (from figūra, shape; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots).]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

configure 
1382, from L. configurare "to fashion after a pattern," from con- "together" + figurare "to shape" (see figure).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

configure software
A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc.
Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. Richard Pixley in collaboration with Richard Stallman. In 1994, David MacKenzie and others modified autoconf to incorporate all the features of Cygnus configure and many GNU programs, including gcc now use autoconf.
Metaconfig is a similar program used in building Perl.
(http://airs.com/ian/configure).
(2005-04-15)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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