assembly (assemblies plural )
1 n-count An assembly is a large group of people who meet regularly to make decisions or laws for a particular region or country.
usu sing
...the campaign for the first free election to the National Assembly., ...an assembly of party members from the Russian republic.
2 n-count An assembly is a group of people gathered together for a particular purpose.
(=gathering)
He waited until complete quiet settled on the assembly.
3 n-uncount When you refer to rights of assembly or restrictions on assembly, you are referring to the legal right that people have to gather together.
FORMAL usu prep N
4 n-var In a school, assembly is a gathering of all the teachers and pupils at the beginning of every school day.
By 9, the juniors are in the hall for assembly., ...a long room with a stage at one end for assemblies.
5 n-uncount The assembly of a machine, device, or object is the process of fitting its different parts together. For the rest of the day, he worked on the assembly of an explosive device.
assembly line (assembly lines plural )An assembly line is an arrangement of workers and machines in a factory, where each worker deals with only one part of a product. The product passes from one worker to another until it is finished. n-count
assembly plant (assembly plants plural )An assembly plant is a factory where large items such as cars are put together, usually using parts which have been made in other factories. n-count
constituent assembly (constituent assemblies plural )A constituent assembly is a body of representatives that is elected to create or change their country's constitution. n-count
self-assembly
Self-assembly is used to refer to furniture and other goods that you buy in parts and that you have to put together yourself. adj usu ADJ n
...a range of self-assembly bedroom furniture.
