assembly

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble +‎ -y. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /əˈsɛmb.lɪ/ (US) IPA(key): /əˈsɛmb.li/ === Noun === assembly (countable and uncountable, plural assemblies) 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. (politics) A legislative body. (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. (computing) Ellipsis of assembly language. (computing, Microsoft .NET) 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 ==== church (obsolete) (congregation of people): foregathering ==== Hyponyms ==== house of assembly jural assembly ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Portuguese == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English assembly. === Noun === assembly m (plural assemblies) (computing) assembly language (programming language using mnemonics that correspond to processor instructions) Synonym: linguagem de montagem