English Explanatory Dictionary

assembly

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
  2. The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
  3. A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
  4. A legislative body.
  5. A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
  6. Ellipsis of assembly language.
  7. 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.
name
  1. The lower legislative body of each of a number of states of the United States.

Pronunciation

/əˈsɛmb.lɪ/ /əˈsɛmb.li/ en-us-assembly.ogg

Word forms

assembly assemblies

Etymology

From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble + -y.

Synonyms

church gathering foregathering

Derived words

assembly hall assembly language assembly line assemblyman assemblymember assemblyosome assemblyperson assembly plant assembly point assembly room assembly ship assembly time assemblywoman autoassembly bioassembly brake assembly card assembly Church Assembly coassembly conditional assembly language constituent assembly disassembly freedom of assembly general assembly genome assembly interassembly macroassembly microassembly misassembly multiassembly nanoassembly national assembly open assembly time parish assembly popular assembly postassembly preassembly reassembly roof assembly self-assembly sequence assembly subassembly superassembly supramolecular assembly tactical assembly area unassembly
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