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English
Etymology
From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée).
Pronunciation
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.
- The act of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
instructions for assembly
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.
- 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; , 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.
- (politics) A legislative body.
- (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
- (computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.
- (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.
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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)
- Irish: tiomsú m
- Italian: montaggio (it) m
- Macedonian: склопување n (sklopuvanje), составување n (sostavuvanje)
- Portuguese: montagem (pt) f
- Romanian: montare (ro) f, montaj (ro) n
- Slovak: montáž
- Spanish: ensamblaje f, montaje (es) f
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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: जमाअत (hi) f (jamāat), जमात (hi) f (jamāt)
- 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
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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)
- 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)
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Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English assembly.
Noun
assembly m (plural assemblies)
- (computing) assembly language (programming language using mnemonics that correspond to processor instructions)
- Synonym: linguagem de montagem