EGAVE

assembly

Academic Word List, sublist 10.

About 38.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
    instructions for assembly
  3. noun A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
    school assembly
  4. noun A legislative body.
    the General Assembly of the United Nations
  5. noun A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
  6. noun Ellipsis of assembly language.
  7. noun 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.

Similar words

assemblage fabrication meeting place forum gathering collection assemble aggregation conglomeration linkage

Often followed by

of and in to was line is on for

Word family

Assemblies Assembly assemble assembled assembles assemblies assembling

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