assembly

noun (plural assemblies)

• 1a group of people gathered together in one place for a common purpose:an assembly of dockers and labourers
• a group of people elected to make laws or decisions for a particular country or region: the 577-seat National Assembly the UN General Assembly

• 2 [mass noun] the action of gathering together as a group for a common purpose:a decree guaranteeing freedom of assembly
• the regular gathering of the teachers and pupils of a school at the start or end of the day:he was told off for talking in assembly
• (usually the assembly) chiefly historical a signal for troops to assemble, given by drum or bugle.

• 3 [mass noun, often as modifier] the action of fitting together the component parts of a machine or other object:a car assembly plant
• [count noun] a unit consisting of components that have been fitted together:the tail assembly of the aircraft

• 4 [mass noun, usually as modifier] Computing the conversion of instructions in low-level code to machine code.