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assembly

noun
/əˈsɛmb.lɪ/UK/əˈsɛmb.li/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from asemblee
  2. derived from asemblee
  3. inherited from assemblee

Definitions

  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.
    • Sheets of water poured over the car, making visibility all but nil. Suddenly the windshield wiper, not just the blade but the entire assembly, blew off.

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

    • instructions for assembly
    • some assembly required
    • assembly line

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

    • school assembly
    • freedom of assembly
    • 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[…]
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A legislative body.

      • the General Assembly of the United Nations
      • New York State Assembly

    2. A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

    3. Ellipsis of assembly language.

    4. A building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code…

      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.

    5. The lower legislative body of each of a number of states of the United States.

      • Nevada Assembly
      • New York State Assembly

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Derived

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 · +6 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at assembly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at assembly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at assembly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA