n. [ Cf. F. assemblage. See Assemble. ] 1. The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association. [ 1913 Webster ]

In sweet assemblage every blooming grace. Fenton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things; as, a political assemblage; an assemblage of ideas. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Company; group; collection; concourse; gathering; meeting; convention. Assemblage, Assembly. An assembly consists only of persons; an assemblage may be composed of things as well as persons, as, an assemblage of incoherent objects. Nor is every assemblage of persons an assembly; since the latter term denotes a body who have met, and are acting, in concert for some common end, such as to hear, to deliberate, to unite in music, dancing, etc. An assemblage of skaters on a lake, or of horse jockeys at a race course, is not an assembly, but might be turned into one by collecting into a body with a view to discuss and decide as to some object of common interest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. assemblance. ] 1. Resemblance; likeness; appearance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Care I for the . . . stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man? Give me the spirit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An assembling; assemblage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To weete [ know ] the cause of their assemblance. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Assembled p. pr. & vb. n. Assembling ] [ F. assembler, fr. LL. assimulare to bring together to collect; L. ad + simul together; akin to similis like, Gr. &unr_; at the same time, and E. same. Cf. Assimilate, Same. ] 1. To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thither he assembled all his train. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the men of Israel assembled themselves. 1 Kings viii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To collect and put together the parts of; as, to assemble a bicycle, watch, gun, or other manufactured article. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. To meet or come together, as a number of individuals; to convene; to congregate. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Parliament assembled in November. W. Massey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To liken; to compare. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Bribes may be assembled to pitch. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. brought together into a group or crowd. the assembled letters in my office
Syn. -- accumulated, collected, congregate, massed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 formed by fitting or joining components together.
Syn. -- built(prenominal), made-up. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who assembles a number of individuals; also, one of a number assembled. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Computers) a computer program that takes as input a set of instructions written in assembly language, and produces a corresponding executable computer program in machine language. [ PJC ]

3. (Computers) same as assembly language. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Assemblies [ F. assemblée, fr. assembler. See Assemble. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection of inanimate objects. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mil.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General Assembly is the highest ecclesiastical tribunal, composed of ministers and ruling elders delegated from each presbytery; as, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, or of Scotland. [ 1913 Webster ]

Assembly room, a room in which persons assemble, especially for dancing. --
Unlawful assembly (Law), a meeting of three or more persons on a common plan, in such a way as to cause a reasonable apprehension that they will disturb the peace tumultuously. --
Westminster Assembly, a convocation, consisting chiefly of divines, which, by act of Parliament, assembled July 1, 1643, and remained in session some years. It framed the “Confession of Faith, ” the “Larger Catechism, ” and the “Shorter Catechism, ” which are still received as authority by Presbyterians, and are substantially accepted by Congregationalists. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Assemblage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Computers) an artificial computer language with mnemonic codes representing the basic machine-language instructions of a computer, which can be interpreted by an assembler to produce a computer program in machine language. Also informally referred to as assembler. Writing a program in assembly language is very much simpler than writing the machine instructions in binary code, and the use of such a language greatly increases the efficiency of the process of writing computer programs. See also programming language, FORTRAN, BASIC. [ PJC ]

n. A line of machinery, tools, and workers on which objects to be manufactured are moved from one post to the next, where different workers perform different steps in the manufacturing process; called also production line. The objects to be manufactured usually move on a form of conveyor belt, which does not necessarily move only in a straight line, but may continue around the factory area for some distance. [ PJC ]