assemblages

Noun

assemblage (countable and uncountable, plural assemblages)

1. The process of assembling or bringing together.
   • the assemblage of words and recordings
2. A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
   • The tomb contained percussion, string and wind instruments in a remarkable state of preservation, including the largest assemblage of Bronze Age bells ever recovered. Discovered in 1977, near the city of Suizhou in Hubei Province in central China, the tomb, from the fifth century B.C., has long...1994 January 18, Glen Collins, “Bells of Bronze Age Show the Complexity Of Old China's Music”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015, Arts

   Synonyms:

   group

3. A gathering of people.
   • But scarce was supper well over, before a change so incredible was wrought in me, such violent, yet pleasingly irksome sensations took possession of me that I scarce knew how to contain myself; the smart of the lashes was now converted into such a prickly heat, such fiery tinglings, as made me...1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   congregation, crowd, flock, horde, huddle, legion, mass, multitude, press, slew

4. A group of different artifacts found in association with one another.
5. A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often found, elements into works of art.