A specialization of both StaticSituation and SpatialThing_Localized. Each instance of Configuration is a static situation consisting of two or more PartiallyTangible things of certain types standing in a certain type of spatial relationship (or set of relationships). This (set of) spatial relationship(s) "characterizes" the Configuration's type in the sense that any group of objects of the appropriate types standing in that relationship (or those relationships) correspond to a Configuration of that type; and each of these objects, in turn, is said to be "configured" (see configuredObjects) in the (individual) Configuration.

For example, a knot configuration might correspond to a particular intertwining of end-segments of two CordlikeObjects, or to the intertwining of several segments of a single CordlikeObject. For configurations like the latter, whose characterizing relationship(s) hold between different parts of a single salient object, see the specialization ConfigurationOfComplexObject. Note that a static situation involving an Agent_PartiallyTangible might be a configuration, but only so long as it's just the agent's spatial relationship(s) to other partially tangibles that matters (see e.g. WearingSomething); static situations in which an agent's agency or sentience is crucial, on the other hand, are not configurations (cf. InterAgentSituation and InterAgentSituation_TwoAgent).