assembly
Pronunciation: /əˈsɛmb.lɪ/
The English word “assembly” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
- The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
- A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
- A legislative body.
- A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
- 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.
Etymology
From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble + -y.
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