Konfiguratorisk

Konfiguratorisk is an adjective used in Swedish and related Scandinavian languages to denote a relation to configuration—the arrangement, combination, or ordering of parts within a system. The term is often employed in technical, mathematical, or theoretical contexts to describe properties, processes, or analyses that concern how elements are configured rather than the elements themselves. In this sense, konfiguratorisk characterizes the configurational aspect of a model, design, or workflow.

Etymology and usage: The word derives from configuration (konfiguration) plus the suffix -isk, forming a cognate of the English term configurational. In Scandinavian technical writing, konfiguratorisk is used alongside compounds such as konfigurationsanalys or konfigurationsprinciper, and it tends to appear in theoretical or descriptive discourse. In everyday language, speakers may prefer more explicit phrases like “relaterat till konfiguration” or use other forms of the noun–adjective construction.

Fields and examples: In product configurators—online tools that allow customers to assemble products—a konfiguratorisk approach concerns modeling which option combinations are valid, feasible, or optimal. In systems engineering or software design, it can describe how changes in configuration influence performance or behavior. In linguistics or cognitive science, the term could be used to discuss configurational properties of structures, such as the arrangement of constituents in a sentence, or the overall layout of a complex system.

See also: configuration, konfiguration, konfigurationsanalys, configurational.