English Online Dictionary. What means assembly? What does assembly mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble + -y.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈsɛmb.lɪ/
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈsɛmb.li/
Noun
assembly (countable and uncountable, plural assemblies)
- A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
- The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
- A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
- (politics) A legislative body.
- (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
- (computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.
- (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
Translations
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English assembly.
Noun
assembly m (plural assemblies)
- (computing) assembly language (programming language using mnemonics that correspond to processor instructions)
- Synonym: linguagem de montagem