Main Entry:

as·sem·bly

Pronunciation:

\ə-ˈsem-blē\

Function:

noun

Inflected Form(s):

plural as·sem·blies

Etymology:

Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-French, from assembler

Date:

14th century

1: a company of persons gathered for deliberation and legislation, worship, or entertainment2capitalized : a legislative body ; specifically : the lower house of a legislature3: a meeting of a student body and usually faculty for administrative, educational, or recreational purposes4 a: assemblage 1 b: assemblage 25: a signal for troops to assemble or fall in6 a: the fitting together of manufactured parts into a complete machine, structure, or unit of a machine b: a collection of parts so assembled7: the translation of assembly language to machine language by an assembler