assembly
UK/əˈsɛmb.lɪ//əˈsɛmb.li/
assembly noun: a set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device. Also the ellipsis of assembly language.
Noun
assembly (countable and uncountable, plural assemblies)
- 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.1980 December 6, Nancy Walker, “Toodle-Oo, Doodle”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 12
- The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
- instructions for assembly
- some assembly required
- A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
- school assembly
- freedom of assembly
- Synonyms:
- gathering, foregathering
- A legislative body.
- the General Assembly of the United Nations
- New York State Assembly
- A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
- 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.
Proper noun capitalized: Assembly
Assembly
- The lower legislative body of each of a number of states of the United States.
- Nevada Assembly
- New York State Assembly
Also used as
assembly is also the ellipsis of assembly language.
assembly meaning in Hindi, Odia, Sanskrit and Nepali
assembly in Hindi
- congregation of people
- सभा sabhā, परिषद pariṣad
- legislative body
- संसद sansad, विधानसभा vidhānasbhā
assembly in Odia
- ସମାବେଶ
assembly in Sanskrit
- congregation of people
- परिषद् pariṣad
assembly in Nepali
- सभा, सभा-सभा
More languagesFewer languages
- assembly in Arabic
- تَجْمِيع tajmīʕ, مَجْمَع majmaʕ, اِجْتِمَاع ijtimāʕ, جَمْعِيَّة jamʕiyya
- assembly in Malay
- himpunan, penggabungjalinan, perhimpunan, dewan undangan
- assembly in Indonesian
- perakitan
- assembly in Thai
- สันนิบาต sǎn-ní-bàat
- assembly in Vietnamese
- hội nghị, đại hội
Examples of assembly in a sentence
- The robot arm reached out and placed the part on the assembly line.
- The plant had two batch assembly lines for packaging, as well as a continuous feed production line.
- The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
Synonyms of assembly
Forms of assembly
| plural | assemblies |
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Origin of assembly
From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble + -y.
Words formed from assembly
- assembly hall
- assembly language
- assembly line
- assemblyman
- assemblymember
- assemblyosome
- assemblyperson
- assembly plant
- assembly point
- assembly programming
- 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
- satellite assembly
- self-assembly
- sequence assembly
- subassembly
- superassembly
- supramolecular assembly
- tactical assembly area
- unassembly
Phrases with assembly
Questions about assembly
- What does assembly mean?
- Assembly means a set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
- What is assembly in Hindi?
- Assembly in Hindi is सभा (sabhā), परिषद (pariṣad), संसद (sansad). See Assembly meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is assembly?
- Assembly can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce assembly?
- Assembly is pronounced /əˈsɛmb.lɪ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of assembly?
- The plural of assembly is assemblies.
Words near assembly in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: assembly (page history and authors); Assembly (page history and authors); assembly (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); assembly (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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