Assembly

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Assembly \As*sem"bly\, n.; pl. {Assemblies}. [F. assembl['e]e,
     fr. assembler. See {Assemble}.]
     1. A company of persons collected together in one place, and
        usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and
        legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.
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     2. A collection of inanimate objects. [Obs.] --Howell.
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     3. (Mil.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a
        signal to troops to assemble.
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     Note: In some of the United States, the legislature, or the
           popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the
           General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the
           General Assembly is the highest ecclesiastical
           tribunal, composed of ministers and ruling elders
           delegated from each presbytery; as, the General
           Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United
           States, or of Scotland.
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     {Assembly room}, a room in which persons assemble, especially
        for dancing.
  
     {Unlawful assembly} (Law), a meeting of three or more persons
        on a common plan, in such a way as to cause a reasonable
        apprehension that they will disturb the peace
        tumultuously.
  
     {Westminster Assembly}, a convocation, consisting chiefly of
        divines, which, by act of Parliament, assembled July 1,
        1643, and remained in session some years. It framed the
        "Confession of Faith," the "Larger Catechism," and the
        "Shorter Catechism," which are still received as authority
        by Presbyterians, and are substantially accepted by
        Congregationalists.
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     Syn: See {Assemblage}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  assembly
       n 1: a group of machine parts that fit together to form a
            self-contained unit
       2: the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
          [syn: {fabrication}] [ant: {dismantling}]
       3: a public facility to meet for open discussion [syn: {forum},
           {meeting place}]
       4: a group of persons gathered together for a common purpose
       5: the social act of assembling; "they demanded the right of
          assembly" [syn: {assemblage}, {gathering}] [ant: {dismantling}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  217 Moby Thesaurus words for "assembly":
     British Cabinet, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, advisory body,
     architecture, assemblage, assemblee, assembly line,
     assembly-line production, assignation, association, at home, ball,
     bench, bicameral legislature, board, board of aldermen, body,
     body of advisers, borough council, brain trust, brawl, brethren,
     building, buildup, cabinet, call-up, camarilla, canvass, casting,
     caucus, census, chamber, chamber of deputies, churchgoers, circle,
     city board, city council, class, collection, colligation,
     collocation, colloquium, combination, commission, committee,
     common council, company, comparison, composition, compound,
     conclave, concourse, concurrence, conference, confluence, conflux,
     congregation, congress, connection, constitution, construction,
     consultative assembly, conventicle, convention, convergence,
     conversion, convocation, corralling, council, council fire,
     council of ministers, council of state, council of war,
     county council, court, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, crowd,
     cultivation, dance, data-gathering, date, deliberative assembly,
     devising, diet, directory, divan, eisteddfod, elaboration,
     embodiment, erection, extraction, fabrication, fashioning,
     federal assembly, festivity, fete, flock, fold, forgathering,
     formation, forming, formulation, forum, framing, gathering,
     general assembly, get-together, getup, group, growing, handicraft,
     handiwork, harvesting, horde, host, house of assembly,
     housewarming, incorporation, ingathering, inventory, junction,
     junta, juxtaposition, kitchen cabinet, laity, laymen,
     legislative assembly, legislative body, legislative chamber,
     legislature, levee, lower chamber, lower house, machining, make,
     makeup, making, manufacture, manufacturing, meet, meeting, milling,
     mining, minyan, mixture, mobilization, molding, multitude, muster,
     national assembly, nonclerics, nonordained persons, organization,
     panel, parish, parish council, parishioners, parliament, party,
     people, piecing together, plenum, prefabrication, preparation,
     privy council, processing, producing, production line, prom,
     provincial legislature, provincial parliament, putting together,
     quorum, raising, rally, reception, refining, rendezvous,
     representative town meeting, rodeo, roundup, seance, seculars,
     session, set-up, setup, shaping, sheep, shindig, sit-in, sitting,
     smelting, society, soiree, soviet, staff, state assembly,
     state legislature, structure, structuring, survey, symposium,
     syndicate, syneresis, synod, synthesis, throng, town meeting,
     tribunal, turnout, unicameral legislature, upper chamber,
     upper house, workmanship
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  ASSEMBLY
       
           An early system on the {IBM 702}.
       
          [Listed in CACM 2(5):1959-05-16].
       
          (1996-06-27)
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ASSEMBLY. The union of a number of persons in the same place. There are
  several kinds of assemblies.
       2. Political assemblies, or those authorized by the constitution and
  laws; for example, the general assembly, which includes the senate and house
  of representatives; the meeting of the electors of the president and vice-
  president of the United States, may also be called an assembly.
       3. Popular assemblies are those where the people meet to deliberate
  upon their rights; these are guaranteed by the constitution. Const. U. S.
  Amend. art. 1 Const. of Penn. art. 9, s. 20.
       4. Unlawful assemblies. An unlawful assembly is the meeting of three or
  more persons to do an unlawful act, although they may not carry their
  purpose into execution. It differs from a riot or rout, (q.v.) because in
  each of the latter cases there is some act done besides the simple meeting.