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Assembly vs Faction - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between assembly and faction

is that assembly is a set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device while faction is a group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.

As a proper noun Assembly

is the lower legislative body of each of a number of states of the United States, ("the Assembly").

assembly

English

Noun

(Freedom of assembly) (assemblies)
  • A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
  • ''In order to change the bearing, you must first remove the gearbox assembly .
  • The act of putting together such set of pieces.
  • ''instructions for assembly
    assembly line
  • A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
  • 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.
  • A legislative body.
  • the of the United Nations
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (congregation of people) foregathering

    faction

    Etymology 1

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.
  • *
  • Strife; discord.
  • * 1805 , Johann Georg Cleminius, Englisches Lesebuch für Kaufleute , pg. 188:
  • Publick [sic] affairs soon fell into the utmost confusion, and in this state of faction and perplexity, the island continued, until its re-capture by the French in 1779.
  • * 2001 , Odd Magne Bakke, "Concord and Peace": A Rhetorical Analysis of the First Letter of Clement With an Emphasis on the Language of Unity and Sedition , publ. Mohr Siebeck, ISBN 3161476379, pg. 89:
  • He asks the audience if they believe that they will be more loved by the gods if the city is in a state of faction than if they govern the city with good order and concord.
    Derived terms
    * factional * factionalize

    See also

    * splinter group

    Etymology 2

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction
  • See also
    * (Non-fiction novel) ----