assembly

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act of assembling.
2. n. The state of being assembled.
3. n. A group of persons gathered together for a common reason, as for a legislative, religious, educational, or social purpose.
4. n. The lower house of the legislature in certain U.S. states.
5. n. The putting together of manufactured parts to make a completed product, such as a machine or electronic circuit.
6. n. A set of parts so assembled.
7. n. A signal by bugle or drum for troops to come together in formation.
8. n. Computer Science The automatic translation of symbolic code into machine code.
9. n. Computer Science An assembly language.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled or gathered together.
2. n. A company of persons gathered together in the same place, and usually for the same purpose, whether religious, political, educational, or social; an assemblage.
3. n. Specifically— The name given to the lower house of the legislature in several of the United States and in some of the British colonies. A company of persons of both sexes met for dancing; a ball; especially, a ball the expenses of which are defrayed by the subscriptions of those who take part in it.
4. n. Milit.: The second beating of the drum before a march, upon which the soldiers strike their tents. A drum-beat or bugle-call to bring troops together at an appointed place.
5. n. An assemblage or collection of inanimate objects.

Wiktionary

1. n. A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
2. n. A congregation of people in one place for a purpose
3. n. A legislative body
4. n. computing assembly language
5. n. computing In 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.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. 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.
2. n. obsolete A collection of inanimate objects.
3. n. (Mil.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a public facility to meet for open discussion
2. n. a unit consisting of components that have been fitted together
3. n. a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose
4. n. a group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit
5. n. the social act of assembling
6. n. the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)