Meaning

1. The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
2. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
3. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
4. An assigned task.
5. A position to which someone is assigned.
6. A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
7. A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
8. A document that effects this transfer.
9. An operation that assigns a value to a variable.