assembly

noun (plural assemblies)

• 1a group of people gathered together in one place for a common purpose:an assembly of scholars and poets
• a group of people elected to make laws or decisions for a particular country or region, especially the lower legislative house in some US states:the Connecticut General Assembly

• 2the action of gathering together as a group for a common purpose:a decree guaranteeing freedom of assembly
• a regular gathering of the teachers and students of a school:catcalling occurred during the assembly
• (usually the assembly) chiefly historical a signal for troops to assemble, given by drum or bugle.

• 3 [often as modifier] the action of fitting together the component parts of a machine or other object:a car assembly plant
• a unit consisting of components that have been fitted together:the tail assembly of the aircraft
• [usually as modifier] Computing the conversion of instructions in low-level code to machine code by an assembler.