Assembly
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /əˈsɛmb.lɪi/
Origin
From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée).
Noun
assembly
(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 such set of pieces.''instructions for assemblyassembly line
- A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.school assemblyfreedom of assembly
- 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) Short for assembly language
- (computing) In 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
- (congregation of people) foregathering