conformation

The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.

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

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

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