fac-, facil-, fact-, feas-, -feat, -fect, -feit, -facient, -faction, -fic-, -fy, -ficate, -fication

1. The process of creating systematic rules to govern a specific activity; such as, the cataloging of bibliographic materials.
2. The systematic arrangement of laws, rules, etc.
3. One of the forms of systematization of laws and other legislative instruments regulating some field of social relations.
4. The collection of the principles of a system of law into one body or organization.
5. The act, process, or result of stating the rules and principles that are applicable in a given legal order to one or more broad areas of life in this form of a code.

1. The arrangement of parts or elements or the way the parts of something are arranged and fit together: The configurations of the Christmas decorations in the display window of the store are very attractive and artistically created.
2. The form, as of a figure, determined by the arrangement of its elements: The seating pattern, or configuration, in an airplane may have a two-seat or a four-seat combination with two aisles leading lengthwise.
3. In psychology, gestalt or a set of things; such as, a person's thoughts and experiences considered as a whole and regarded as amounting to more than the sum of its parts: After her divorce, Sandra built up a new configuration of friends, interests and activities in her life.
4. In computer science, the way in which a computer system is set up: The configuration of Tom's computer was changed by resetting the parameters.

The set of constituent components; such as, memory, a hard disk, a monitor, and an operating system, all make up a computer's system of configurations.

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