assembly

See also: Assembly

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/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

assembly (countable and uncountable, plural assemblies)

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.

   • 1980 December 6, Nancy Walker, “Toodle-Oo, Doodle”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 12:

     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

   • 1961 October, “New Metropolitan Line train sets enter service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 622:

     The bogies are built up of welded sub-units which are stress-relieved before assembly by riveting.

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

   school assembly

   freedom of assembly

   • 1732, George Reynolds, A diſſertation: or, Inquiry Concerning the Canonical Autority of the Goſpel according to Mathew; […] ‎^[1], 2nd edition, page 4:

     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 […]

   • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:

     They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

4. (politics) A legislative body.

   the General Assembly of the United Nations

   New York State Assembly

5. (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
6. (computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.
7. (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

• 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
• sequence assembly
• subassembly
• superassembly
• supramolecular assembly
• tactical assembly area
• unassembly

 

Translations

set of pieces

• Bulgarian: механизъм (bg) (mehanizǎm), агрегат (bg) (agregat)
• Dutch: samenstelling (nl), gestel (nl) n
• Finnish: kokonaisuus (fi), kokoonpano (fi)
• French: groupe (fr) m, bloc (fr) m
• German: Baugruppe (de) f
• Greek: συναρμολόγηση (el) f (synarmológisi)
• Hungarian: szerkezet (hu), mű (hu), mechanizmus (hu)
• Italian: assemblaggio (it) m, assemblato (it) m
• Macedonian: склоп m (sklop)
• Portuguese: produto (pt) m
• Romanian: ansamblu (ro) n
• Russian: механи́зм (ru) m (mexanízm), агрега́т (ru) m (agregát), компле́кт (ru) m (komplékt)
• Spanish: ensamblaje m
• Swedish: sammanställning (sv) c

act of putting together

• Catalan: muntatge (ca)
• Czech: montáž (cs) f
• Finnish: kokoonpano (fi), kokoaminen (fi), kasaaminen (fi), kasaus
• French: assemblage (fr) m
• Georgian: შეკრება (šeḳreba), მოგროვება (mogroveba), დაკომპლექტება (daḳomṗlekṭeba), აწყობა (ac̣q̇oba), თავმოყრა (tavmoq̇ra), მოწვევა (moc̣veva)
• Hebrew: הַרְכָּבָה f (harkavá)
• Hungarian: összeszerelés (hu), összerakás (hu), összeállítás (hu)
• Ido: asemblajo (io)
• Indonesian: perakitan (id)
• Irish: tiomsú m
• Italian: montaggio (it) m
• Macedonian: склопување n (sklopuvanje), составување n (sostavuvanje)
• Malay: penggabungjalinan
• Portuguese: montagem (pt) f
• Romanian: montare (ro) f, montaj (ro) n
• Slovak: montáž
• Spanish: ensamblaje f, montaje (es) f

congregation of people

• Albanian: mbledhje (sq), asamble (sq)
• Apache:

  Western Apache: íłaʼádzaa

• Armenian: ժողով (hy) (žoġov)
• Bulgarian: събиране (bg) (sǎbirane), събрание (bg) (sǎbranie)
• Catalan: assemblea (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 集會／集会 (zh) (jíhuì), 會議／会议 (zh) (huìyì)

• Czech: shromáždění (cs) n, shromažďování n (freedom of)
• Dutch: vergadering (nl)
• Finnish: kokous (fi), kokoontuminen (fi)
• French: (formally) assemblée (fr) f, rassemblement (fr) m
• Galician: asemblea (gl) f
• Georgian: კრება (ḳreba), შეკრება (šeḳreba), ასამბლეა (asamblea), ყრილობა (q̇riloba)
• German: Versammlung (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌵𐌿𐌼𐌸𐍃 f (gaqumþs)
• Greek: συνάθροιση (el) f (synáthroisi)

  Ancient: σύνοδος f (súnodos), ἀγών m (agṓn)

• Hebrew: אסיפה f (asefá), עֲצֶרֶת (he) f (atzéret)
• Hindi: सभा (hi) (sabhā), परिषद (hi) (pariṣad)
• Hungarian: gyülekezet (hu), gyűlés (hu), kupaktanács (hu) (slang)
• Ido: asemblo (io)
• Irish: oireacht m, tionól m, comhthionól m, cóisir f
• Italian: assembramento (it) m
• Japanese: 会議 (ja) (かいぎ, kaigi)
• Kazakh: ассамблея (assambleä)
• Kikuyu: mũcemanio class 3
• Korean: 회의 (ko) (hoe'ui)
• Macedonian: собрание n (sobranie)
• Manx: cruinnaght f
• Mongolian: (formal) чуулган (mn) (čuulgan), цуглаан (mn) (cuglaan)
• Norman: assembliée f (Jersey), assembllaïe f (Guernsey)
• Norwegian: forsamling m
• Old English: samnung f
• Ottoman Turkish: درنك (dernek), جمعیت (cemʼiyet), انجمن (encümen), مجلس (meclis)
• Plautdietsch: Vesaumlunk f
• Polish: zgromadzenie (pl) n, wiec (pl) m, narada (pl) f, apel (pl) m
• Portuguese: assembléia (pt) f
• Russian: собра́ние (ru) n (sobránije), (school) лине́йка (ru) f (linéjka)
• Sanskrit: परिषद् (sa) f (pariṣad)
• Scottish Gaelic: cruinneachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: zbornica (sh) f
• Slovak: zhromaždenie, zhromažďovanie
• Spanish: asamblea (es) f
• Swedish: församling (sv) c
• Tocharian B: sārri, wertsiya
• Ukrainian: зібра́ння n (zibránnja)
• Volapük: kolkömanef
• Welsh: cynulliad (cy) m
• Zulu: inhlangano class 9/10, imbizo class 9/10

legislative body

• Albanian: mbledhje (sq), asamble (sq)
• Arabic: جَمْعِيَّة (ar) f (jamʕiyya)
• Armenian: ժողով (hy) (žoġov)
• Belarusian: асамбле́я f (asambljéja)
• Bulgarian: асамблея (asambleja)
• Catalan: assemblea (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大會／大会 (zh) (dàhuì) (general assembly), 會議／会议 (zh) (huìyì)

• Czech: shromáždění (cs) n
• Dutch: vergadering (nl) f
• Egyptian: (ḏꜣḏꜣt f)
• Esperanto: asembleo
• Estonian: assemblee
• Finnish: kokous (fi)
• French: assemblée (fr) f, parlement (fr) m
• Galician: asemblea (gl) f
• Georgian: ასამბლეა (asamblea), საკანონმდებლო კრება (saḳanonmdeblo ḳreba), საკანონმდებლო ორგანო (saḳanonmdeblo organo)
• German: Versammlung (de) f
• Greek: σύνοδος (el) f (sýnodos), συνέλευση (el) f (synélefsi)

  Ancient: σύνοδος f (súnodos)

• Hindi: संसद (hi) (sansad)
• Hungarian: gyűlés (hu)
• Ido: asemblo (io)
• Irish: tionól m
• Italian: assemblea (it) f
• Japanese: 会議 (ja) (か​いぎ, kaigi)
• Kazakh: ассамблея (assambleä)
• Khmer: សន្និបាត (km) (son ni bat)
• Korean: 회의 (ko) (hoe'ui)
• Macedonian: собрание n (sobranie)
• Norwegian: forsamling m
• Polish: zgromadzenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: assembléia (pt) f
• Romagnol: asișa f
• Russian: ассамбле́я (ru) f (assambléja), собра́ние (ru) n (sobránije)
• Serbo-Croatian: skupština (sh) f, sabor (sh) m
• Slovak: zhromaždenie
• Spanish: asamblea (es) f
• Turkish: cemiyet (tr), dernek (tr), meclis (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎃𐎗 (pḫr)
• Ukrainian: асамбле́я (uk) f (asambléja)
• Uzbek: assambleya (uz)

short for assembly language — see also assembly language

• Finnish: assembly-kieli, konekieli (fi) (literally “machine language”)
• French: assembleur (fr) m
• Italian: assembly (it)
• Persian: اسمبلی (asembeli)
• Russian: ассе́мблер (ru) m (assémbler)
• Slovak: asembler
• Spanish: ensamblador (es)
• Turkish: asamble (tr)

building block in .NET

• Finnish: kokoonpano-osa
• Russian: у́зел (ru) m (úzel), блок (ru) m (blok)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English assembly.

Noun

assembly m (plural assemblies)

1. (computing) assembly language (programming language using mnemonics that correspond to processor instructions)

   Synonym: linguagem de montagem