assembly meaning

• Noun: assembly  u'semb(u)lee
  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)
     - fabrication 
  3. A public facility to meet for open discussion
     - forum, meeting place 
  4. A group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose 
  5. A unit consisting of components that have been fitted together 
  6. The social act of assembling
     "they demanded the right of assembly"
     - assemblage, gathering

  Derived forms: assemblies

  Type of: assemblage, building, construction, facility, gathering, group action, installation, machine, unit, whole

  Antonym: disassembly

  Encyclopedia: Assembly

• 
  [Business]
  noun (plural assemblies)

  SELF-ASSEMBLY

  1 [U]

  the process of fitting together the parts of a product:

  The new model is being launched at the UK assembly plant.

  We plan to begin car assembly at the plant in 2006.

  easy-to-follow assembly instructions

  The assembly process is highly specialized and labour intensive.

  The company plans to sell the design and assembly rights to its new range of tractors.

  2 [C]

  a large group of people who come together for a particular purpose:

  an assembly of over 200 people

  the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

• 
  [Defence]
  (*) In logistics, an item forming a portion of an equipment, that can be provisioned and replaced as an entity and which normally incorporates replaceable parts or groups of parts.
  See also component; subassembly.
• 
  [Electronics]
  1. A finished unit that can be either a practical working model or a dummy, a prototype, or a final model; an integrated aggregation of subunits.
  2. A low-level computer source-code language that uses crude mnemonics that are easier to remember than the machine-language equivalents.
  

[Mechanical engineering]
"A unit containing the component parts of a mechanism, machine, or similar device."
• 
  [Computer]
  <language> An early system on the IBM 702.

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Examples

1. fit the tail assembly to the fuselage.
2. the assembly will rise next tuesday.
3. each state had a governor and a state assembly.
4. it was very quiet in the assembly hall.
5. the assembly assented gravely.