assembly

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
2. (countable, uncountable) The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
3. (countable, uncountable) A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
4. (countable, uncountable) A legislative body.
5. (countable, uncountable) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of assembly language.
7. (countable, uncountable) 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

meeting

gathering

assemblage

convention

council

conference

company

crowd

collection

association

society

congregation

multitude

congress

group

gather

reunion

🇷🇪

session

assemble

aggregation

party

🥳

mounting

combination

concourse

convocation

meeting place

unit

construction

🚧

audience

forum

set

erection

flock

collecting

band

installation

cluster

team

rally

muster

gang

fitting

get-together

assembling

aggregate

board

manufacture

batch

installing

adjusting

Translations

Versammlung

asamblea

assemblée

assemblea

réunion

rassemblement

Montage

riunione

assembléia

montage

reunião

assemblea

assemblage

συνέλευση

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈsɛmb.lɪ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: assemblee

Cognate with French: assemblée

In summary

From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble + -y.