Definition of "assembly"

assembly

/əˈsɛmb.lɪ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural assemblies
1. A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
2. The act of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
  Quotations
  The bogies are built up of welded sub-units which are stress-relieved before assembly by riveting.
  1961 October, “New Metropolitan Line train sets enter service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 622
3. A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
  Quotations
  In a word, they were made uſe of by the immediate ſucceſſors of the Apoſtles, and many of them read in the Public Aſſemblies of Chriſtians, as Canonical Scripture, without the leaſt mark of Diſtinction, in point of Autority […]
  1732, George Reynolds, A diſſertation: or, Inquiry Concerning the Canonical Autority of the Goſpel according to Mathew; […] ‎, 2nd edition, page 4
  They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
  1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, page 9
4. (politics) A legislative body.
5. (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
6. (computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.
7. (computing, 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.