English Explanatory Dictionary

assignment

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
  2. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
  3. The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
  4. An assigned task.
  5. A position to which one is assigned.
  6. A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
  7. A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
  8. A document that effects this transfer.
  9. An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

Pronunciation

/əˈsaɪn.mənt/ en-us-assignment.ogg

Word forms

assignment assignments

Etymology

From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement. By surface analysis, assign + -ment.

Derived words

address assignment antiassignment assignment operator frequency assignment misassignment nonassignment Procrustean assignment reassignment time-assignment speech interpolation unassignment understand the assignment

Translations

Chinese Mandarin: 歸類 /归类 Finnish: luokitus French: affectation German: Zuordnung Polish: przyporządkowywanie Polish: przyporządkowanie Portuguese: atribuição Russian: категориза́ция Russian: классифика́ция
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