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- n. The assembly of a retail product by the customer
- n. The assembly of a biological or chemical material from a disorganized collection by means of interactions between the components
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“I say whoever gets there first – design or self-assembly – the winner gets to lay claim to the more reasonable "expectation".”
“So far the trend is that the self-assembly paradigm gets more convoluted and improbable as the search continues, and the design paradigm gets more and more plausible.”
“Still, Ikea benefited from increasingly cash-conscious consumers, attracted by its low-cost furnishings and flat-pack, self-assembly furniture.”
The Wall Street Journal: Ikea Profit Rises on Continued Growth
“The Sequoia F. 8L Falco is a lightweight 2-seater aerobatic aircraft, sold in kit or plans form for self-assembly by the Sequoia Aircraft Company of Richmond, Virginia.”
“This will insure full inflation by encouraging self-assembly of gluten.”
“Try using a list of ingredients on a package of heavily processed food, the instructions for self-assembly furniture preferably translated from a foreign language, or the chronological order of ancient Chinese dynasties.”
“Suzan Mazur: What about other mechanisms of evolution, self-organization and self-assembly?”
“Biological materials exhibit special physical or chemical functions as a result of special shapes or conformations that result from self-assembly.”
Dan Agin: Book Review: Giant Molecules: From Nylon to Nanotubes
“The concept of self-assembly, for instance, where you put certain chemicals into a beaker or test tube, shake it up and vesicles form.”
“As I said, the goal of MediaBytes is to facilitate the self-assembly of a community of interest around my content.”
A Serious Online Video Advertising Problem - Shelly Palmer - MediaBizBlogger
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