Assembly vs Compilation - What's the difference?
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A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
The act of putting together such set of pieces.
A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
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A legislative body.
(military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
(computing)
(computing) In 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.
(uncountable) The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
(countable) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
(uncountable, computing) Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.
Assembly is a related term of compilation.
As a proper noun assembly
is (us) the lower legislative body of each of a number of states of the united states, ("the assembly").As a noun compilation is
(uncountable) the act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.assembly
English
Noun
(Freedom of assembly) (assemblies)- ''In order to change the bearing, you must first remove the gearbox assembly .
- ''instructions for assembly
- assembly line
- school assembly
- freedom of assembly
- 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.
- the of the United Nations