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

(lb) A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.

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*{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=John T. Jost

, volume=100, issue=2, page=162, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}

(lb) A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.

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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society , of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

(lb) The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter

, title= Cronies and capitols , passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}

(lb) The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.

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, passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars:

*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Steven Sloman

, volume=100, issue=1, page=74, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}

(lb) High society.

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A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.