assembly

assembly
noun (plural -blies) Etymology: Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-French, from assembler Date: 14th century 1. a company of persons gathered for deliberation and legislation, worship, or entertainment 2. capitalized a legislative body; specifically the lower house of a legislature 3. a meeting of a student body and usually faculty for administrative, educational, or recreational purposes 4. a. assemblage 1 b. assemblage 2 5. a signal for troops to assemble or fall in 6. a. the fitting together of manufactured parts into a complete machine, structure, or unit of a machine b. a collection of parts so assembled 7. the translation of assembly language to machine language by an assembler

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  • assembly — c.1300, a gathering of persons, a group gathered for some purpose, from O.Fr. as(s)emblee assembly, gathering; union, marriage, noun use of fem. pp. of assembler to assemble (see ASSEMBLE (Cf. assemble)). Meaning gathering together is recorded… …   Etymology dictionary

  • assembly — 1 assemblage, congregation, gathering, collection (see under GATHER) Analogous words: *company, party, troop, band: *crowd, throng, crush, press 2 *assemblage Analogous words: (see those at ASSEMBLY 1) …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • assembly — [n1] congregation accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, association, band, body, bunch, clambake*, cluster, coffee klatch*, collection, company, conclave, confab*, conference, convocation, council, crew, crowd, faction, flock, gathering, get… …   New thesaurus

  • assembly — [ə sem′blē] n. pl. assemblies [ME assemble < OFr assemblee < assembler: see ASSEMBLE] 1. an assembling or being assembled 2. a group of persons gathered together, as for worship, instruction, or entertainment 3. a) a legislative body …   English World dictionary

  • assembly — assembly. См. сборка. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

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