configurations

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Examples

Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied. Edward Said

Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology. Marshall McLuhan

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone. Yoshio Taniguchi

The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind. Johannes Kepler

We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations. Timothy Leary

A substance showing resonance between two or more valence-bond structures does not contain molecules with the configurations and properties usually associated with these structures. Linus Pauling