assembly
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assembly/əˈsembli/
▶noun (pl. assemblies)
- 1 a group of people gathered together.
■ a group having legislative or decision-making powers.
■ a regular gathering of teachers and pupils in a school.
- 2 the action of assembling component parts.
■ a unit consisting of assembled components.
- 3 Computing the conversion of instructions in symbolic code to machine code by an assembler.
'assembly' also found in these Oxford entries:
AM
- assembler
- assembly language
- assembly line
- assembly rooms
- Bailey bridge
- capitol
- Chamber of Deputies
- closure
- collective noun
- conclave
- concourse
- congregation
- convent
- conventicle
- convention
- convocation
- convoke
- Cortes
- council
- Dáil
- debate
- deliberative
- diet
- dissolution
- dissolve
- Duma
- ecclesiastical
- estufa
- filibuster
- first reading
- floor
- floor leader
- gathering
- Gorsedd
- headset
- house
- hustings
- inquorate
- introduce
- Kumbh Mela
- left wing
- levee
- Lord Commissioner
- majlis
- meeting
- mela
- MLA
- MNA
