• Assembly

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /əˈsÉ›mb.lɪi/

    Origin

    From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée).

    Noun

    assembly

    (plural assemblies)
    1. 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.
    2. The act of putting together such set of pieces.''instructions for assemblyassembly line
    3. A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.school assemblyfreedom of assembly
    4. A legislative body.the General Assembly of the United Nations
    5. (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
    6. (computing) Short for assembly language
    7. (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.

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