An assembly is a large group of people who meet regularly to make decisions or laws for a particular region or country.
...the campaign for the first free election to the National Assembly.
...an assembly of party members from the Russian republic.
2. countable noun
An assembly is a group of people gathered together for a particular purpose.
He waited until complete quiet settled on the assembly.
Synonyms: gathering, group, meeting, body More Synonyms of assembly
3. uncountable noun
When you refer to rights of assembly or restrictions on assembly, you are referring to the legal right that people have to gather together.
[formal]
The U.S. Constitution guarantees free speech, freedom of assembly and equal protection.
They were accused of unlawful assembly.
4. variable noun
In a school, assembly is a gathering of all the teachers and pupils at the beginning of every school day.
By 9, the juniors are in the hall for assembly.
...a long room with a stage at one end for assemblies.
5. uncountable noun
The assembly of a machine, device, or object is the process of fitting its different parts together.
For the rest of the day, he worked on the assembly of an explosive device.
...workers at Sao Paolo's car assembly plants.
More Synonyms of assembly
assembly in British English
(əˈsɛmblɪ)
nounWord forms: plural-blies
1.
a number of people gathered together, esp for a formal meeting held at regular intervals
2.
the act of assembling or the state of being assembled
3.
the process of putting together a number of parts to make a machine or other product
4. machinery
a group of mating components before or after fitting together
5. military
a.
a signal for personnel to assemble, as by drum, bugle, etc
b.
(as modifier)
an assembly area
Assembly in British English
(əˈsɛmblɪ)
nounWord forms: plural-blies
1.
the lower chamber in various American state legislatures
See also House of Assembly, legislative assembly, National Assembly
2. New Zealand short for General Assembly
assembly in American English
(əˈsɛmbli)
nounWord forms: pluralasˈsemblies
1.
an assembling or being assembled
2.
a group of persons gathered together, as for worship, instruction, or entertainment
3.
a.
a legislative body
b. [A-]
in some states of the U.S., the lower house of the legislature
4.
a fitting together of parts to make a whole, as in manufacturing automobiles
5.
the parts to be thus fitted together
6.
a call, as by bugle or drum, for soldiers to assemble in ranks
7.
the process of translating a computer program, written in assembly language, into machine language
adjective
8.
designating or of a low-level computer language that uses words, abbreviations, etc. that are translated into machine language
Word origin
ME assemble < OFr assemblee < assembler: see assemble
assembly in Mechanical Engineering
(əsɛmbli)
noun
(Mechanical engineering: Manufacturing and assembly)
Assembly is the process of putting parts together to make a machine or other product.
All the components were made and ready for assembly.
The apparatus comes in kit form for ease of assembly.
Assembly is the process of putting parts together to make a machine or other product.
assembly line
Examples of 'assembly' in a sentence
assembly
He is expected to be formally proposed in a resolution submitted to the general assembly today.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It will issue a new assembly and details of how to install it.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
By one of the assembly lines, players walked beneath a sign which read.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She was upset and worried about the reading she had to do at that morning's school assembly.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
CAR assembly line workers are furious after bosses set strict times when they go to the loo.
The Sun (2016)
The security council expects her to appear in front of the general assembly before next Wednesday, when it holds its next straw poll.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The shame felt in whole school assembly next morning ensured no recurrence of the offence.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
During the assembly process there were many problems.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Good freedom of assembly and a long history of press freedom.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The proposed march was hardly an exercise in lawful assembly and free speech.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The assembly will have one year to draft a constitution.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Both sides are playing to their galleries in advance of assembly elections.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They demanded elections to a new assembly and the drafting of a new constitution.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The aim was a continual improvement in quality on the assembly line.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
We are ushered into a space reminiscent of a school assembly hall.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The row was serious enough for him to address the school at assembly.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Perhaps your government is restricting your right to free assembly?
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
During the speeches in the assembly hall he kept his trilby hat firmly on the back of his head.
John Cornwell Seminary Boy (2006)
It looks like a school assembly room, but with oddities.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The Broughton factory will begin its assembly of the first wing this time next year.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
We had this huge glass wall looking into the assembly room, which was the big ballet studio.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
I think of the discipleship process as a car assembly line.
Christianity Today (2000)
Then this pattern can be organized so that the minimum number of standardized parts will make possible the assembly of the maximum number of products.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)
Worse still, the automobile assembly line makes each man a threat rather than a resource to his fellow worker.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)
London Victory in one assembly seat.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Freedom of speech and assembly.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
After some point, the assembly process will slow down as workers wait for others to complete their work on these machines.
Miller, Roger LeRoy & Fishe, Raymond P. H. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice (1995)
While a global people 's assembly has revolutionary potential, it is hardly a new idea.
George Monbiot THE AGE OF CONSENT (2003)
The point of a people 's assembly is that it is independent of pre-existing powers.
George Monbiot THE AGE OF CONSENT (2003)
General assembly meetings, held twice a day to discuss issues and organisational matters, are tightly run.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
But so is the freedom to religious assembly in the place of one's choosing and the freedom to go unhindered about one's daily business.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
In other languages
assembly
British English: assembly /əˈsɛmblɪ/ NOUN
An assembly is a group of people gathered together for a particular purpose.
...an assembly of party members from the Russian republic.
American English: assembly
Arabic: اِجْتِمَاع
Brazilian Portuguese: assembleia
Chinese: 集合
Croatian: skupština
Czech: shromáždění
Danish: forsamling
Dutch: samenkomst
European Spanish: asamblea
Finnish: kokous
French: assemblée
German: Versammlung
Greek: συγκέντρωση
Italian: assemblea
Japanese: 集会
Korean: 집회
Norwegian: forsamling
Polish: zgromadzenie
European Portuguese: assembleia
Romanian: adunare
Russian: собрание
Latin American Spanish: asamblea
Swedish: samling
Thai: การรวมกลุ่ม
Turkish: topluluk
Ukrainian: збори
Vietnamese: nhóm người
All related terms of 'assembly'
assembly hall
a very large room used to hold public meetings , to stage shows, etc
assembly line
An assembly line is an arrangement of workers and machines in a factory, where each worker deals with only one part of a product . The product passes from one worker to another until it is finished .
assembly room
a room used as a public place of entertainment , usually dating from the eighteenth or nineteenth century
assembly shop
a factory where workers assemble manufactured parts into a finished product
home assembly
assembly at home of something supplied in pieces
self-assembly
Self-assembly is used to refer to furniture and other goods that you buy in parts and that you have to put together yourself.
tail assembly
the tail part of a plane
assembly plant
An assembly plant is a factory where large items such as cars are put together, usually using parts which have been made in other factories.
assembly point
a designated place where people have been told to wait after evacuating a building in the event of a fire or other emergency
assembly rooms
a set of rooms used as a public place of entertainment , usually dating from the eighteenth or nineteenth century
London Assembly
→ the London Assembly
Welsh Assembly
→ the Welsh Assembly
assembly language
a low-level programming language that allows a programmer complete control of the machine code to be generated
citizens' assembly
a group of citizens of a country who are invited to discuss an issue of national importance and make recommendations about policy
General Assembly
the deliberative assembly of the United Nations
National Assembly
the body constituted by the French Third Estate in June 1789 after the calling of the Estates General. It was dissolved in Sept 1791 to be replaced by the new Legislative Assembly
unlawful assembly
a meeting of three or more people with the intent of carrying out any unlawful purpose
bottomhole assembly
The bottomhole assembly is the lower part of a drill string , which has the drill bit and mud motor.
constituent assembly
A constituent assembly is a body of representatives that is elected to create or change their country's constitution.
House of Assembly
a legislative assembly or the lower chamber of such an assembly, esp in various British colonies and countries of the Commonwealth
legislative assembly
the bicameral legislature in 28 states of the US
the Welsh Assembly
the elected assembly for Wales , based in Cardiff , that has certain powers devolved from the UK government
the London Assembly
the devolved legislature of London, based in City Hall , Southwark
flexible assembly system
A flexible assembly system is a set of machines or robots that can assemble many different kinds of products .
quick-assembly furniture
furniture such as shelves and cupboards which you buy as a number of separate pieces and assemble yourself
Assembly of First Nations
the national organization which represents the First Nations in Canada
Northern Ireland Assembly
→ the Northern Ireland Assembly
National Assembly for Wales
→ the National Assembly for Wales
the Northern Ireland Assembly
the devolved legislature of Northern Ireland, located at Stormont in Belfast
the National Assembly for Wales
the elected assembly for Wales , based in Cardiff , that has certain powers devolved from the UK government