Assembly

Definition: Assembly

Assembly

Noun

1. A group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit.

2. The act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery).

3. A public facility to meet for open discussion.

4. A group of persons gathered together for a common purpose.

5. The social act of assembling; "they demanded the right of assembly".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "assembly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Assembly \As*sem"bly\, noun; plural Assemblies. [French assembl['e]e, from assembler. See Assemble.]. (Websters 1913)

Computing

Law

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Synonyms: Assembly

Abode

Assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house, cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop, dive, exchange; grill room, saloon, shebeen; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada; almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse.

Assemblage

Noun: {opp. } assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement; team; concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione; (social gathering); assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote; conclave; (council); posse, posse comitatus; Noah's ark.

Council

Senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim; classis; Amphictyonic council; duma, house of representatives; legislative assembly, legislative council; riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate; court of appeal; (tribunal); board of control, board of works; vestry; county council, local board.

Assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle; meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house; quorum; council fire, powwow, primary.

Laity

Noun: laity, flock, fold, congregation, assembly, brethren, people; society.

Sociality

Social circle, family circle; circle of acquaintance, coterie, society, company. social gathering, social reunion; assembly; (assemblage); barbecue, bee; corn-husking, corn-shucking; house raising, barn raising; husking, husking-bee; infare.

Crosswords: Assembly

I fail to see the educational value of this assembly. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Air Transportable Elevator Assembly and Operation (1963)

Divine Will International Assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses (1959)

Uncrating and Assembly of the P-47 Thunderbolt Airplane (1943)

The Assembly in the Indian Village (1901)

General Assembly 2000 (2000)

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References

• St Assembly Test Services Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Assembly Language Step-by-step: Programming with DOS and Linux (with CD-ROM) (reference)

• Block by Block: New Techniques for Machine Quilting and Assembly (reference)

• Engine Builder's Handbook: Inspection Machine Reconditioning Valvetrain Assembly Blueprinting Degreeing Cams Tools Engine Assembly (reference)

• For the Thrill of It: IU Basketball in the Assembly Hall Era (reference)

• Riotous Assembly (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Assembly (reference)

• Assembly Time Guide (reference)

• Bills Of The House Of Assembly (reference)

• Bills Of The Legislative Assembly Of Prince Edward Island - First Reading (reference)

• Circuits Assembly (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Kidz on Location: A Field Trip to the Minivan Assembly Plant (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Some Assembly Required (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Kingston Rack Mount Slide Assembly Kit For Ds400 Ds500 (reference)

• Tektronix 500Sht Tray and Lower Input Feeder Assembly F/ Phaser 840/850 (reference)

• 20FT LOW LOSS CABLE ASSEMBLY (reference)

• 50FT LOW LOSS CABLE ASSEMBLY (reference)

• Optra Forms 4.3C Unit Assembly CD Unit (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Magnetic Tot Loc Four Lock Assembly (reference)

• Bissell 9201 4-Inch Upholstery/Carpet Tool Assembly (reference)

• Remington SP-114 Replacement Screen & Cutter Assembly (reference)

• Hitachi 303891 Planer Dust Hood Assembly (reference)

• Mr. Heater F273702 12' Propane Hose Assembly (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Participants in World Health Assembly (1969) visiting Vector-Borne Museum at CDC. Credit: CDC.

Multiple round bumps on cell surface represent sites of assembly and budding of virions. Credit: CDC.

The First Stages of Saturn IB in Final Assembly. Credit: NASA.

Aerial View of Michould Assembly Facility (MAF). Credit: NASA.

Undersea habitat assembly, cylinders and spheres withstand pressure. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Figure 26 (cont). Closeup view of the meter assembly of Thorsten Arwidsson's shallow water current meter. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 63. Clement metallic thermometer, first mentioned in 1839 by the clock- maker of Rochefort, Leandre Clement. This thermometer functioned by the differential contraction or expansion of two strips of differing metals. They were soldered together in a spiral form. Left is the total assembly while above right is the indicating dial. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Dwayne Mangum, NRCS District Conservationist, and volunteer manager of the South Carolina Sea Island Farmers Cooperative and a member of the South Carolina State General Assembly, examine a sunflower. The co-op, organized in the late 1960's when farms wer. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Volunteer manager of the South Carolina Sea Island Farmers Cooperative and a member of the South Carolina State General Assembly, checks some plants. There are 50 full and part-time farmers in the Sea Island Farmers Cooperative. [Slide 97CS3115]. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Curtis Inabinett volunteer manager of the South Carolina Sea Island Farmers Cooperative and a member of the South Carolina State General Assembly. Currently there are 50 full and part-time farmers in the Sea Island Farmers Cooperative, originally the coop had over 100 members. Credit: USDA.

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An assembly of hereditary nobility. (Second Treatise of Government)

The Assembly shall consist of Representatives of the Members of the League. (reference)

Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. (reference)

To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support--to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective--to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak--and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run. (reference)

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I desired that the senate of Rome might appear before me in one large chamber, and an assembly of somewhat a latter age in counterview in another.

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Health

The adult spinal cord is an intricate assembly of cells and nerve fibers arrayed in specific locations with very precise interconnections. (references)

The triplet repeat expansion apparently disrupts the normal assembly of amino acids into proteins, greatly reducing the amount of frataxin that is produced. (references)

Defects in this assembly lead to structural problems that can disrupt the integrity of the outer membrane of muscle cells, resulting eventually in degeneration. (references)

Business

Mercedes has a truck assembly plant in the country. (references)

Local assembly computers occupy 65 percent of the market. (references)

UzDaewoo Auto's production started as an assembly operation. (references)

Children

Madagascar

In April the Government issued an implementing decree for a law, passed by the National Assembly in 1998, to define the rights of persons with disabilities. (references)

Mozambique

In order to address child prostitution, the National Assembly passed a law in 1999 prohibiting the access of minors to bars and clubs; however, the Government does not have adequate resources to enforce the law effectively. (references)

Panama

Children with disabilities traditionally have been separated from the general population; however, in February 2000, the Legislative Assembly passed a law that requires schools to integrate children with special needs into the student body, and this law generally is enforced. (references)

Civil Liberties

Nicaragua

On March 6, the National Assembly approved the law unanimously. (references)

Algeria

The law prohibits public assembly for purposes of practicing a faith other than Islam. (references)

Djibouti

The Ministry of Interior requires permits for peaceful assembly and monitors opposition activities. (references)

Economic History

Kenya

Kenya has a limited computer assembly sector. (references)

The Bahamas

They answer politically to the House of Assembly. (references)

Zambia

Elections also were held for the National Assembly. (references)

Human Rights

Mozambique

No Assembly approval is needed for other judicial appointments. (references)

Korea

Debate in the National Assembly on revising the NSL is ongoing. (references)

Ghana

The district assembly agreed to help resettle those whose houses were burnt. (references)

Indigenous People

Namibia

In 1999 a San was nominated by the SWAPO party for the National Assembly and won the election. (references)

Minorities

Croatia

On two previous occasions, the assembly was blocked by a crowd of right-wing ethnic Croats who opposed the election of an ethnic Serb as mayor. (references)

Georgia

On March 24, a mob of Basilists attacked eight visiting foreign Assembly of God members; the Basilists stole their camera equipment and inflicted minor injuries. (references)

Political Economy

Mauritius

In some cases, police restricted freedom of assembly. (references)

Uk

Fewer powers have been devolved to the Welsh Assembly. (references)

Kenya

KANU also holds a majority of seats (119) in the assembly. (references)

Political Rights

Egypt

Roll-call votes in the Assembly are rare. (references)

Laos

There are 10 Hmong in the National Assembly. (references)

Egypt

In 2000 elections for the People's Assembly were held. (references)

Trade

Albania

Albania has important shoe and clothing assembly industries. (references)

Argentina

Article 3: - Imported products that undergo a final process of assembly, finishing, etc. (references)

Costa Rica

A Free Trade Agreement with Chile awaits ratification by the Costa Rican Legislative Assembly. (references)

Women

Mozambique

A group of women's NGO's lobbied members of the National Assembly during the year to criminalize domestic violence. (references)

Chad

A law to criminalize the practice of FGM was passed by the Council of Ministers; however, by year's end, no action had been taken by the National Assembly. (references)

Kuwait

Leading the call for questioning were Assembly members who voted for the law in 1996. In October the Minister of Education submitted a report on measures already taken and future plans for gender segregation. (references)

Worker Rights

Yemen

Only the General Assembly of the GFWTUY may dissolve unions. (references)

Haiti

Employers in the assembly sector generally pay the minimum wage or higher amount. (references)

Haiti

Female workers in the assembly sector report that some employers sexually harass female workers with impunity. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In an assembly

Expressions using "assembly": algorithmic ASsembly language ♦ array Processor Assembly Language ♦ assembly anchorage ♦ assembly area ♦ assembly code ♦ assembly general ♦ assembly hall ♦ assembly language ♦ assembly Language Compiler ♦ assembly Language for Multics ♦ assembly line ♦ assembly line production ♦ assembly man ♦ assembly plant ♦ assembly point ♦ assembly program ♦ assembly room ♦ assembly rooms ♦ assembly routine ♦ assembly shop ♦ assembly worker ♦ basic 15 supergroup assembly ♦ basic Assembly Language ♦ blade assembly ♦ checkerboard assembly ♦ Christmas tree assembly ♦ cold weather assembly ♦ constituent assembly ♦ convoy assembly port ♦ dan leno assembly ♦ design for assembly ♦ DSP32 Assembly Language ♦ ejector pin assembly ♦ elective assembly ♦ Federal Assembly ♦ forked assembly ♦ freedom of assembly ♦ fuselage assembly ♦ general assembly ♦ green assembly ♦ head Disk Assembly ♦ hose assembly ♦ ICI assembly ♦ Inconel spring clip grid assembly ♦ keep assembly lines rolling ♦ legislative assembly ♦ main gear door uplock assembly ♦ main gear uplock assembly ♦ micro Assembly Language ♦ national assembly ♦ nose gear door uplock assembly ♦ nose gear uplock assembly ♦ PDP Assembly Language ♦ representative assembly ♦ secret assembly ♦ sensitivity of a measuring assembly ♦ sequential assembly ♦ shear link assembly ♦ stopper rod assembly ♦ symbolic ASSEMBLY ♦ symbolic Optimal Assembly Program ♦ tail assembly ♦ unlawful assembly ♦ Virus Assembly ♦ Westminster Assembly ♦ wing assembly. Additional references.

Beginning with "assembly": assembly-decisions, assembly-hall, assembly-language, assembly-line, assembly-lines, assembly-only, assembly-robots, assembly-see, assembly-to-assembly.

Ending with "assembly": executive-assembly, re-assembly, self-assembly.

Containing "assembly": sub-assembly-type.

Albanian

asamble, sinjal grumbullimi, montim (assemblage, editing, erection, fitting, fixing, frame, hookup), mbledhje (accumulation, addition, assemblage, clearing, collection, congregation, contraction, convocation, council, erection, furl, gathering, Ingathering, meeting, muster, picking, proceedings, rally, reaping, retraction, round up, session, shrinkage, sitting, squat, summation, turn out), kuvend (assemblage, convent, convention, conversation, convocation, diet, moot). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مجمع (academy, college, congregation, convention), ‏مجلس النواب (house of representatives, parliament), ‏مجلس (board, body, council, divan, senate, synod), ‏تركيب (anatomy, assemblage, combination, composing, composition, installation, structure, synthesis, texture), ‏جمهور (audience, crowd, gathering, great number, host, public, throng), ‏جمعية (association, club, consortium, institute, institution, meeting, organization, society), ‏المجمعة, ‏الجمعية (collectivity, society), ‏إجتماع (congress, convention, forum, gathering, grouping, huddle, meet, meeting, muster, powwow, proceedings, seance). (various references)

Bulgarian 

събрание (congress, convention, meeting, powwow, rally, sanhedrim, turnout), събиране (accumulation, addition, aggregation, assemblage, casting, collection, convention, convergence, gathering, get together, levy, meet, meeting, muster, summation), сборен, сбор (aggregate, amount, dues, fee, fete, lump, muster, number, tot, total, troop, whole), монтажен, монтаж (continuity, installation, montage, setting up), механизъм (action, contrivance, device, gear, machine, machinery, mechanism, motion, movement, works), законодателно събрание, асамблея. (various references)

Chinese 

部件 (components, parts), 集會 (gather, meeting), 大会 (Assemblies). (various references)

Czech

agregát (aggregate, device, unit), soustředìní (concentration), snìm (parliament), shromáždìní (assemblage, constituent assembly, convention, gathering, get together, muster, parliament, rally, roundup), shluk (clump, cluster, conglomeration, huddle, riot), montáž (construction, erection, montage). (various references)

Danish

montage (assemblage, composing, erecting, fitting up, mounting). (various references)

Dutch

samenscholing (accumulation, parade, roll-call), montage (assemblage, composing, erecting, fitting up, mounting). (various references)

Esperanto

asembleo, amasiĝo, muntado (assemblage, composing, erecting, fitting up, mounting), kunsidantaro. (various references)

Farsi 

مجلس (Congress, Convocation, Council, Legislature, Parliament, Scene, Session), هیلت قانون گذاری , گروه (A, Administration, Army, Bunch, Class, Clinch, Clique, Cluster, Cohort, Company, Concourse, Corps, Covey, Crowd, Ensign, Flock, Gang, Group, Kind, Outfit, Pack, Rout, School, Seaboard, Shoal, Skulk, Team, Throng), انجمن (Assemblage, Club, Community, Company, Congress, Convention, Convocation, Council, Group, Guild, Institute, Moot, Order, Society), اجتماع (Assemblage, Collection, Commonweal, Community, Crowd, Hurricane, Milieu, Muster, Society, Turnout). (various references)

Finnish

yhdyskunta (community), liitos (join, joint, scarf, seam), kolonia (colony), kokoonpano (composition). (various references)

French

montage (assemblage), assemblage (assemblage), assemblée (assemblage, assembled). (various references)

German

montage (assemblage, editing, erection, installation, montage, mounting), zusammenstellung (accommodation, adjustment, arrangement, arranging, assemblage, assembling, buildup, collocation, combination, compilation, compiling, composing, composition, drafting, erecting, fitting up, group, list, mounting, picking, set, survey), zusammenbau (assembling, erection), Versammlung (assemblage, congregation, convening, convention, convocation, gathering, house, meeting, mustering, powwow, rally, rallying, sitting), Baugruppe (module). (various references)

Greek 

συνέλευση (convention, meeting), συνδεσμολογία (configuration, connection, fitting, joint, linkage). (various references)

Hebrew 

אסיפ�" (collection, gathering, meeting), �"רכבת חלקים, �"קמ�" (construction, erection, establishment, foundation, setting up), �"תאספות (gathering, meeting), כ� ס (conference, congress, convention, gathering, meeting, rally, session), כ� סי�" (church), כ� וס (conference, convention, convocation, meeting, muster), כ� יס�" (access, admission, entrance, entry, gateway, inlet, input), �"רכב�" (combination, composition, compounding, montage, mounting, superposition), אסופ�" (collection), מק�"ל (congregation), עצרת (convocation, mass meeting), ערכ�" (kit, set), ע�"�" (community, congregation, flock, swarm), ק�"ל (community, crowd, gathering, public, throng), ק�"ל�" (community, congregation, public), לקבץ (aggregate, bunch, collect, gather, muster, rally), מכלל (complex, perfection), מקרא (convocation, key, legend, recitation, text), אספ�" (gathering, meeting). (various references)

Hungarian

sorakozó (alignment, fall in, line up, line-up, parade), gyülekezet (assemblage, congregation, convention, muster, turnout), gyûlés (function, meeting, rally), gyűlés (festering, function, pow-wow, session), összeszerelés (assemblage, erection, mounting). (various references)

Indonesian

rapat (convocation, gathering, meeting), pertemuan (affair, confluence, convoke), perakitan, pemasangan (installation), majelis. (various references)

Irish

dáil. (various references)

Italian

montaggio (assembling, cutting, editing, erection, montage, mounting), accumulazione (accrual, accumulation, storage), assemblea (assemblage, convocation, gathering, meeting). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

集まり (collection, gathering, meeting), 集会 (meeting), 集合 (gathering, meeting, set), 組立 (construction, erection, framework, organization), 組み立て (construction, erection, framework, organization), 会議 (conference, congress, convention, council, meeting, session), 会集 (audience, meeting), 会同 (meeting), 会合 (meeting), 会 (association, club, meeting, party, understanding), アダ� スストークス症候群 (accelerando, achievement test, Adams-Stokes syndrome, adult, adult education, adult shop, adult video, at, at bat, at home, attenuator, axe, sex shop, upper, uppercut, upper-middle), アセンション島 (Ascension Island, assembler). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅうかい (circumference, cluster, girth, mass, meeting, personal reformation, surroundings), しゅう�"う (gathering, meeting, set, syncretism), くみたて (construction, erection, framework, freshly drawn, organization), かいぎ (conference, congress, consultation via a circular, convention, council, disbelief, doubt, meeting, session, skepticism), かいしゅう (audience, collection, congregation, conversion, improvement, meeting, recovery, repair), かいどう (aronia, chapel, church, highway, meeting, sea route, synagogue, tabernacle, unusually large or strong youth), かい�"う (change of era, change of name or title, meeting), かい (association, avail, being in between, buyer, buying, club, concerning oneself with, counter for occurrences, effect, -floor, large, low rank, lower order, mediation, meeting, mystery, oar, paddle, party, purchase, result, scull, shell, shellfish, stories, subordinate, the feelings of the people, together, use, wonder, worth), あつまり (collection, gathering, meeting), アッシー , アセンブリー , アセンブリ . (various references)

Korean 

집합 (Assemblies, Collecting). (various references)

Manx

quinney, quaiyl (court, guild, legislature, parliament, session, tribunal), mod (gathering, mode), forragh, feish (carnival, festival, fete), cruinnaght (eisteddfod, event, function, gathering), chionnal (congregation, crowd, jam, mob, multitude, turn out, turn out of people). (various references)

Pig Latin

assemblyay

Portuguese

montagem (assemblage, composition, erection, furnishings, installation, montage, mount, mounting, setting, setting-up), conjunto (aggregate, aggregation, cluster, conjoint, conjunct, ensemble, entirety, group, joint, kit, lump, mass, series, set), assembléia (assemblage, consistory, convention, convocation, council, diet, meeting, moot, session, turn-out). (various references)

Romanian

asamblare (assemblage, assembling), adunare (accumulation, addition, aggregate, assemblage, cluster, collection, conference, congregation, congress, conjunction, convention, convocation, crowd, footing up, gathering, heap, hoarding, meeting, muster, powwow, rally, reunion, rodeo, sitting, social, tot, turn out), sobor (group of priests, service, synod, thousand), reuniune (collection, function, gathering, party, reunion, sociable, social), montare (adjustment, assemblage, assembling, erection, framing, mounting, rigging, setting), consiliu (corporation, council, senate), şedinţã (conference, meeting, session, sitting), întrunire (bevy, congregation, get together, meet, meeting, rally). (various references)

Russian 

ассамблея. (various references)

Scottish

mòd (a court, court, trial), comh-thional (congregation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zbor (assemblage, gathering, meeting, muster, rally), veće (chamber, council), skupština (agora, house, parliament), sklapanje (assemblage, erection, inflexion), montaža (assemblage, editing, installation, montage, rigging). (various references)

Spanish

montaje (assemblage, editing, erection, hookup, montage, mounting, putting together, shipping), asamblea (conference, congress, convention, convocation, gathering, Ingathering, moot, muster). (various references)

Swedish

montering (assemblage, fabrication, fitting, installation, Mount, mounting, refitting). (various references)

Thai

ชิ้นส่วน (fraction), สัญญา�"รวมพล, การรวมกลุ่ม, การประกอบ, กลุ่มคน (band, body, squad). (various references)

Turkish