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1.nounA set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device."In order to change the bearing, you must first remove the gearbox assembly."
2.nounThe act of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements."assembly line"
3.nounA congregation of people in one place for a purpose."freedom of assembly"
4.nounA legislative body.
5.nounA beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
6.nounIn Microsoft .NET, a building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.
7.nounA programming language in which the source code of programs is composed of mnemonic instructions, each of which corresponds directly to a machine instruction for a particular processor."A skilled programmer can write very fast code in assembly language."