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

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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.

Noun

The common people of a nation.

* The populace despised their ignorant leader.

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, title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}

The inhabitants of a nation.