assembly
See also: Assembly
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
assembly (countable and uncountable, plural assemblies)
- A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
- In order to change the bearing, you must first remove the gearbox assembly.
- The act of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
- instructions for assembly
- assembly line
- 1961 October, “New Metropolitan Line train sets enter service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 622:
- The bogies are built up of welded sub-units which are stress-relieved before assembly by riveting.
- A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
- school assembly
- freedom of assembly
- 1732, George Reynolds, A diſſertation: or, Inquiry Concerning the Canonical Autority of the Goſpel according to Mathew; […] [1], 2nd edition, page 4:
- In a word, they were made uſe of by the immediate ſucceſſors of the Apoſtles, and many of them read in the Public Aſſemblies of Chriſtians, as Canonical Scripture, without the leaſt mark of Diſtinction, in point of Autority […]
- 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
- (politics) A legislative body.
- the General Assembly of the United Nations
- (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
- (computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.
- (computing, Microsoft .NET) A building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.
Synonyms edit
- church (obsolete)
- (congregation of people): foregathering
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- assembly hall
- assembly language
- assembly line
- assembly plant
- assembly point
- assembly room
- assembly ship
- brake assembly
- card assembly
- Church Assembly
- conditional assembly language
- constituent assembly
- freedom of assembly
- general assembly
- genome assembly
- national assembly
- parish assembly
- popular assembly
- roof assembly
- self-assembly
- sequence assembly
- supramolecular assembly
- tactical assembly area
Translations edit
set of pieces
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act of putting together
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congregation of people
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legislative body
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short for assembly language — see also assembly language
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building block in .NET
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Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English assembly.
Noun edit
assembly m (plural assemblies)
- (computing) assembly language (programming language using mnemonics that correspond to processor instructions)
- Synonym: linguagem de montagem