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assembly

/əˈsɛmb.li/

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What does assembly mean?

noun

  1. A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
  2. The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
  3. A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
More meanings (5)

noun

  1. A legislative body.
  2. A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
  3. Ellipsis of assembly language.
  4. 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.

proper noun

  1. The lower legislative body of each of a number of states of the United States.

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IPA pronunciation

/əˈsɛmb.li/

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The struggles of the assembly with the royal power led it to call for the intervention of the people in these struggles.
Gustave Le BonThe Psychology of RevolutionProject Gutenberg ebook #448
This murder caused a sudden consternation in the whole assembly, and the heads of each faction had their different sentiments about it.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
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Let us, then, bring before us the assembly, which was about to decide a question thus big with the fate of empire.
Edward Sylvester EllisThomas Jefferson, a Character SketchProject Gutenberg ebook #712
The legislative powers were vested in a president, the assembly, and a legislative council, to be chosen out of their own body.
William Dobein JamesA Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a History of His BrigadeProject Gutenberg ebook #923
Where he calleth an Assembly, whereof men can give no just account, a Sedition, and such as they could not answer for.
Thomas HobbesLeviathanProject Gutenberg ebook #3207