Conformation

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Conformation generally means structural arrangement.

In science, it may refer to:

• Chemical conformation, in chemistry, is the chemical structure of a molecule. In polymer chemistry, it's the three-dimensional shape of the macromolecular chain.
• Protein conformation, in molecular biology and biochemistry, a (tertiary structure) is its overall shape as determined by its folding