The particular settings a system is currently arranged into. Choices made once and then held, until someone changes them.
Latin configuratio (a shaping, arrangement), from configurare (to shape after a pattern), from com- (together) + figurare (to shape), from figura (form); the particular settings a system is currently arranged into, held until someone changes them.
The particular settings a system is presently arranged into. Nothing here is permanent — only held, until a hand decides to change it.