1A group of people gathered together in one place for a common purpose.

1. 1.1 A group of people elected to make laws or decisions for a particular country or region.
   the 577-seat National Assembly

   the UN General Assembly

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   • The national conference would elect a consultative assembly to serve alongside the Government.
   • Six members of the legislative assembly are elected from each of the existing 18 Westminster parliamentary constituencies.
   • He was elected to the state assembly and then to the state senate, where he served 14 years.
   • It provides for a president with extensive executive powers and legislative veto authority who is elected by the assembly for a seven-year term.
   • He declared that central government in Westminster would not be able to ignore the ‘great northern voice’ if three regions of England establish elected assemblies next year.
   • The global constituent assembly shall be made up of 300 members, elected from all national assemblies.
   • A vote in favour will result in the region having an assembly elected by proportional representation consisting of between 25 and 30 members.
   • An assembly would have an executive of around six members, comprising a leader with a cabinet elected by the full assembly;
   • The head of the government was directly elected by the assembly, which kept the name of Consulta.
   • The Third Republic was based upon a legislative assembly elected by universal male suffrage and proclaimed itself a thoroughly parliamentary regime.
   • The assembly will in turn elect a prime minister or president, who will appoint cabinet officers.
   • Three Blacks were elected to the legislative assembly the following year.
   • The assembly, which elected the president in the past, became largely obsolete after direct presidential elections were held in 1996.
   • Elected to the state assembly in 1904 and the state senate in 1908, he became that body's youngest president pro tempore in 1911.
   • Last night deflated devolutionists were stressing that the question of how the Northern regions can improve their economies themselves without elected assemblies still needed to be answered.
   • They are in effect electing a constitutional assembly.
   • Members of the next assembly, to be elected in February, could rewrite the rules, or throw out the supplementary pension plan entirely.
   • The local assembly is assigned to elect a governor and design development policy in the province.
   • The new assembly would oversee the region's economic development, transport and planning as well as administering regional house-building targets.
   • In this election, as in the last, almost every female candidate would have to be elected for the assembly to reach proportional representation.

2mass noun The action of gathering together as a group for a common purpose.

1. 2.1 The regular gathering of the teachers and pupils of a school at the start or end of the day.
   he was told off for talking in assembly

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   • Only on Wednesdays when they had assembly in the hall, he walked down the corridor.
   • On the last day of term, parents of Year Five and Six children at Threshfield School were invited to the regular special assembly where the children present their review of the term's work.
   • The Senior School had morning assembly in the Hall and the third-formers went to the school Gym.
   • Meanwhile, news of the tragedy was relayed to pupils during morning assembly today at Bitterne Park School where the teenager had been a pupil since last year.
   • I regularly stood up in assembly and told the headmaster he was wrong.
   • Year 12 students co-ordinated the project at the school and gave presentations in assembly to encourage other pupils to take part.
   • Residents have seen children on the roof of the school on a couple of occasions so we will be talking to our pupils in assembly to see if they have any information.
   • Amelia and Isabella - wearing Pudsey ears - stood up in front of 150 other pupils in assembly at Mellor Primary and asked them to help raise money.
   • First, you'll go into the multi-purpose room for a short assembly where you'll receive your class schedules.
   • The news was broken to pupils in Monday's assembly.
   • In Grade 4, all children will participate in an assembly dedicated to creative conflict resolution and peer mediation.
   • The entire student body crowded into the sports hall for morning assembly.
   • Prayer sessions, yoga classes, assembly, assignments and the regular classes from morning till evening just go on.
   • Forsberg attended the school's homecoming pep rally and assembly as a show of support to the students still recovering from the horrible events of that tragic day.
   • The height of the school year was when we Camp Fire Girls performed together at the school assembly.
   • She's reporting on a boring school assembly at which the pupils start to talk among themselves.
   • Teachers and fellow pupils held a special assembly for her on Monday, and at the site of the crash in Rook Lane Caterham, mourners left flowers, heartfelt messages, photographs and candles.
   • He also held a question and answer session with year six students and gave a talk to all 400 pupils in assembly.
   • Jessica, a pupil at Thackley Primary School, was congratulated by her teachers in assembly.
   • She put Hector through his paces in front of 220 pupils during the school assembly.
2. 2.2usually the assemblyhistorical A signal for troops to assemble, given by drum or bugle.
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   • NATO troops surrounded the assembly to ensure a ‘peaceful transition’.
   • A big number of many-colored flares, both friendly and enemy, that were fired from the ground, as well as fires in drop areas, confused the assembly signals.

3mass noun, often as modifier The action of fitting together the component parts of a machine or other object.

1. 3.1count noun A unit consisting of components that have been fitted together.
   the tail assembly of the aircraft

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   • In the twenty-first century computers make complex structures and irregular component assemblies easier and cheaper.
   • The plant produces sliding windows for pickup trucks, quarter windows with lights and lift gate assemblies at a volume of approximately 480,000 units per year.
   • First, the gray plastic door handle assemblies and rear license plate bucket are removed.
   • The state-of-the-art equipment was originally designed to examine rocket motor assemblies and turbine blades.
   • The company has more than 30 years of experience in the manufacture of medical thermoplastic components and assemblies.
   • The company offers a freestanding display rack and a pegboard assembly to merchandise the products.
   • As a result, molded cable assemblies are photographed as a lunar probe vehicle, as fireworks, and as plants growing beside a stream.
   • Using special DNA containing docking sites at regular intervals, they can then direct the assembly of microscopic electrical components.
   • A device company must ask, for example, how sophisticated are my product's assemblies or components?
   • The old tanks are taken apart, put back together again with new pumps and electrical assemblies, and finished with a flesh coat of paint.
   • Today, the company is one of the leading suppliers of press tools, components and assemblies to automotive manufacturers worldwide.
   • Extended product design teams can compare components and assemblies and identify engineering changes authored using multiple CAD tools.
   • This method involves identifying between 20 and 50 key components or assemblies in the product.
   • These qualities have made asbestos popular to be used in insulation, acoustical tiles, floor tiles, and automotive brake assemblies.
   • Certified to ISO 9001, the company manufactures precision components and assemblies for medical device applications.
   • More critical are the joints that hold together brakes, steering assemblies, engines and all the expensive and functional parts of the vehicle.
   • This pump uses rotating gear assemblies within a pump housing to produce the hydraulic oil flow.
   • The threaded switch and lens assemblies are sealed to the body with waterproof, greased ‘O’ rings.
   • Construction now depends on specialisms and the mass production of components, complex assemblies, and ultimately entire buildings.
   • High-performance insulation is an integral part of building wall and roof assemblies.

4Computing
mass noun, usually as modifier The conversion of instructions in low-level code to machine code.