assembly

noun

A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.

The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.

A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.

(politics) A legislative body.

(military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

(computing, 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.

(US politics) The lower legislative body of each of a number of states of the United States.

(computing) Ellipsis of assembly language. [(computer languages) A programming language in which the source code of programs is composed of mnemonic instructions, each of which corresponds directly to a machine instruction for a particular processor.]

Roots

semsem- · Proto-Indo-European · one, together, as one

Synonyms for assembly

forgatheringv gatheringn assemblagen convocationn parliamentn meetingn caucusn fabricationn congressn synodn forumn conventiclen legislaturen congregationn counciln committeen

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