assembly

assembly

See also: Assembly

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈsɛmb.lɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈsɛmb.li/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

assembly (countable and uncountable, 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 a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.

   instructions for assembly

   assembly line

   • 1961 October, “New Metropolitan Line train sets enter service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 622:

     The bogies are built up of welded sub-units which are stress-relieved before assembly by riveting.

3. A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.

   school assembly

   freedom of assembly

   • 1732, George Reynolds, A diſſertation: or, Inquiry Concerning the Canonical Autority of the Goſpel according to Mathew; […] ‎, 2nd edition, page 4:

     In a word, they were made uſe of by the immediate ſucceſſors of the Apoſtles, and many of them read in the Public Aſſemblies of Chriſtians, as Canonical Scripture, without the leaſt mark of Diſtinction, in point of Autority […]

   • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, OCLC 491297620, page 9:

     They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

4. (politics) A legislative body.

   the General Assembly of the United Nations

   New York State Assembly

5. (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
6. (computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.
7. (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.

Synonyms

• church (obsolete)
• (congregation of people): foregathering

Hyponyms

• house of assembly
• jural assembly

Derived terms

• assembly line
• assembly point
• assembly ship
• brake assembly
• card assembly
• conditional assembly language
• constituent assembly
• freedom of assembly
• general assembly
• genome assembly
• national assembly
• parish assembly
• popular assembly
• roof assembly
• self-assembly
• sequence assembly
• tactical assembly area

 

Translations

set of pieces

Bulgarian: механизъм (bg) (mehanizǎm), агрегат (bg) (agregat) Dutch: samenstelling (nl), gestel (nl) n Finnish: kokonaisuus (fi), kokoonpano (fi) French: groupe (fr) m, bloc (fr) m German: Baugruppe (de) f Greek: συναρμολόγηση (el) f (synarmológisi) Hungarian: szerkezet (hu), mű (hu), mechanizmus (hu) Italian: assemblaggio (it) m, assemblato (it) m Macedonian: склоп m (sklop) Portuguese: produto (pt) m Romanian: ansamblu (ro) n Russian: механи́зм (ru) m (mexanízm), агрега́т (ru) m (agregát), компле́кт (ru) m (komplékt) Spanish: ensamblaje m Swedish: sammanställning (sv) c

act of putting together

Catalan: muntatge (ca) Czech: montáž (cs) f Finnish: kokoonpano (fi), kokoaminen (fi), kasaaminen (fi), kasaus French: assemblage (fr) m Georgian: შეკრება (šeḳreba), მოგროვება (mogroveba), დაკომპლექტება (daḳomṗlekṭeba), აწყობა (ac̣q̇oba), თავმოყრა (tavmoq̇ra), მოწვევა (moc̣veva) Hungarian: összeszerelés (hu), összerakás, összeállítás (hu) Ido: asemblajo (io) Irish: tiomsú m Italian: montaggio (it) m Macedonian: склопување n (sklopuvanje), составување n (sostavuvanje) Portuguese: montagem (pt) f Romanian: montare (ro) f, montaj (ro) n Slovak: montáž Spanish: ensamblaje f, montaje (es) f

congregation of people

Albanian: mbledhje (sq), asamble (sq) Apache: Western Apache: íłaʼádzaa Armenian: ժողով (hy) (žołov) Bulgarian: събиране (bg) (sǎbirane), събрание (bg) (sǎbranie) Catalan: assemblea (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 集會／集会 (zh) (jíhuì), 會議／会议 (zh) (huìyì) Czech: shromáždění (cs) n, shromažďování n (freedom of) Dutch: vergadering (nl) Finnish: kokous (fi), kokoontuminen (fi) French: (formally) assemblée (fr) f, rassemblement (fr) m Galician: asemblea (gl) f Georgian: კრება (ḳreba), შეკრება (šeḳreba), ასამბლეა (asamblea), ყრილობა (q̇riloba) German: Versammlung (de) f Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌵𐌿𐌼𐌸𐍃 f (gaqumþs) Greek: συνάθροιση (el) f (synáthroisi) Ancient: σύνοδος f (súnodos), ἀγών m (agṓn) Hebrew: אסיפה‎ f (asefá), עֲצֶרֶת‎ (he) f (atzéret) Hindi: जमाअत (hi) f (jamāat), जमात (hi) f (jamāt) Hungarian: gyülekezet (hu), gyűlés (hu), kupaktanács (hu) (slang) Ido: asemblo (io) Irish: oireacht m, tionól m, comhthionól m, cóisir f Italian: assembramento (it) m Japanese: 会議 (ja) (かいぎ, kaigi) Kazakh: ассамблея (assambleä) Kikuyu: mũcemanio class 3 Korean: 회의 (ko) (hoe'ui) Macedonian: собрание n (sobranie) Manx: cruinnaght f Mongolian: (formal) чуулган (mn) (čuulgan), цуглаан (mn) (cuglaan) Norman: assembliée f (Jersey), assembllaïe f (Guernsey) Norwegian: forsamling m Old English: samnung f Plautdietsch: Vesaumlunk f Polish: zgromadzenie (pl) n, wiec (pl) m, narada (pl) f, apel (pl) m Portuguese: assembléia (pt) f Russian: собра́ние (ru) n (sobránije), (school) лине́йка (ru) f (linéjka) Sanskrit: परिषद् (sa) f (pariṣad) Scottish Gaelic: cruinneachadh m Serbo-Croatian: zbornica (sh) f Slovak: zhromaždenie, zhromažďovanie Spanish: asamblea (es) f Swedish: församling (sv) c Tocharian B: sārri, wertsiya Ukrainian: зібра́ння n (zibránnja) Volapük: kolkömanef Welsh: cynulliad (cy) m Zulu: inhlangano class 9/10, imbizo class 9/10

legislative body

Albanian: mbledhje (sq), asamble (sq) Arabic: جَمْعِيَّة‎ (ar) f (jamʿiyya) Armenian: ժողով (hy) (žołov) Belarusian: асамбле́я f (asambljéja) Bulgarian: асамблея (asambleja) Catalan: assemblea (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 大會／大会 (zh) (dàhuì) (general assembly), 會議／会议 (zh) (huìyì) Czech: shromáždění (cs) n Dutch: vergadering (nl) f Egyptian: (ḏꜣḏꜣt f) Esperanto: asembleo Estonian: assemblee Finnish: kokous (fi) French: assemblée (fr) f, parlement (fr) m Galician: asemblea (gl) f Georgian: ასამბლეა (asamblea), საკანონმდებლო კრება (saḳanonmdeblo ḳreba), საკანონმდებლო ორგანო (saḳanonmdeblo organo) German: Versammlung (de) f Greek: σύνοδος (el) f (sýnodos), συνέλευση (el) f (synélefsi) Ancient: σύνοδος f (súnodos) Hungarian: gyűlés (hu) Ido: asemblo (io) Irish: tionól m Italian: assemblea (it) f Japanese: 会議 (ja) (か​いぎ, kaigi) Kazakh: ассамблея (assambleä) Khmer: សន្និបាត (km) (son ni bat) Korean: 회의 (ko) (hoe'ui) Macedonian: собрание n (sobranie) Norwegian: forsamling m Polish: zgromadzenie (pl) n Portuguese: assembléia (pt) f Romagnol: asișa f Russian: ассамбле́я (ru) f (assambléja), собра́ние (ru) n (sobránije) Serbo-Croatian: skupština (sh) f, sabor (sh) m Slovak: zhromaždenie Spanish: asamblea (es) f Turkish: cemiyet (tr), dernek (tr), meclis (tr) Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎃𐎗 (pḫr) Ukrainian: асамбле́я (uk) f (asambléja) Uzbek: assambleya (uz)

short for assembly language — See also translations at assembly language

Finnish: assembly-kieli, konekieli (fi) (literally “machine language”) French: assembleur (fr) m Italian: assembly (it) Persian: اسمبلی‎ (asembeli) Russian: ассе́мблер (ru) m (assémbler) Slovak: asembler Spanish: ensamblador (es) Turkish: asamble (tr)

building block in .NET

Finnish: kokoonpano-osa Russian: у́зел (ru) m (úzel), блок (ru) m (blok)

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English assembly.

Noun

assembly m (plural assemblies)

1. (computing) assembly language (programming language using mnemonics that correspond to processor instructions)

   Synonym: linguagem de montagem