assembly
nounUK /əˈsɛmb.lɪ/ · US /əˈsɛmb.li/
Etymology From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble + -y.
7 senses
- 1A set of pieces that work together in unison as a…
- 2The act or process of putting together a set of pieces…
- 3A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
- 4A legislative body.
- 5A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to…
- 6Ellipsis of assembly language.
- 7A building block of an application, similar to a DLL…
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.
- Sheets of water poured over the car, making visibility all but nil. Suddenly the windshield wiper, not just the blade but the entire assembly, blew off.1980 December 6, Nancy Walker, “Toodle-Oo, Doodle”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 12:
The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
- instructions for assembly
- some assembly required
2 more examples
- assembly line
- The bogies are built up of welded sub-units which are stress-relieved before assembly by riveting.1961 October, “New Metropolitan Line train sets enter service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 622:
A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
- school assembly
- freedom of assembly
2 more examples
- 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[…]1732, George Reynolds, A diſſertation: or, Inquiry Concerning the Canonical Autority of the Goſpel according to Mathew; […] , 2nd edition, page 4:
- 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.1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9:
Government, Politics A legislative body.
- the General Assembly of the United Nations
- New York State Assembly
Government, Military, Politics, War A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Abbreviation, Ellipsis Ellipsis of assembly language.
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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
- church, foregathering
- Derived terms
46 terms
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- house of assembly, jural assembly