English Online Dictionary. What means assignment? What does assignment mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement. By surface analysis, assign + -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈsaɪnmənt/
Hyphenation: a‧ssign‧ment
- Rhymes: -aɪnmənt
Noun
assignment (countable and uncountable, plural assignments)
- The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
- The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
- (LGBTQ) The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
- An assigned task.
- A position to which someone is assigned.
- (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
- (law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
- (law) A document that effects this transfer.
- (programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
Hyponyms
- (programming): augmented assignment
Derived terms
Translations
References
- assignment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Chinese
Alternative forms
- asm (pseudo-acronym)
Etymology
From English assignment.
Pronunciation
Noun
assignment
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) assignment; homework; coursework (Classifier: 份 c)
Synonyms
References
- Bauer, Robert S. (2021) ABC Cantonese-English Comprehensive Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 10
- English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese