Assembly may refer to:

Organisations and meetings

Deliberative assembly A deliberative assembly is a meeting of members who use parliamentary procedure. Etymology In a speech to the electorate at Bristol in 1774, Edmund Burke described the British Parliament as a "deliberative assembly," and the expression became the ...

, a gathering of members who use parliamentary procedure for making decisions *

General assembly A general assembly or general meeting is a meeting of all the members of an organization or shareholders of a company. Specific examples of general assembly include: Churches * General Assembly (presbyterian church), the highest court of presby ...

, an official meeting of the members of an organization or of their representatives *

House of Assembly House of Assembly is a name given to the legislature or lower house of a bicameral parliament. In some countries this may be at a subnational level. Historically, in British Crown colonies as the colony gained more internal responsible governme ...

, a name given to the legislature or lower house of a bicameral legislature *

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...

, either a legislature or the lower house of a bicameral legislature in some countries **

National Assembly (disambiguation) A National Assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. National Assembly may also refer to: Currently in use * National Assembly (Afghanistan), the le ...

Popular assembly A popular assembly (or people's assembly) is a gathering called to address issues of importance to participants. Assemblies tend to be freely open to participation and operate by direct democracy. Some assemblies are of people from a location ...

, a localized citizen gathering to address issues of importance to the community *

Qahal The ''qahal'' ( he, קהל) was a theocratic organizational structure in ancient Israelite society according to the Hebrew Bible. See column345-6 The Ashkenazi Jewish system of a self-governing community or kehila from medieval Christian Europe ...

, or assembly, an Israelite organizational structure *

People's Assembly (disambiguation) People's Assembly may refer to: Parliaments and legislatures * People's Assembly (Albania), former name of the parliament of the Republic of Albania * People's Assembly (Burma), the former unicameral legislature of socialist-era Burma * Egypt ...

Assembly of Experts The Assembly of Experts ( fa, مجلس خبرگان رهبری, majles-e khobregân-e rahbari), also translated as the Assembly of Experts of the Leadership or as the Council of Experts, is the deliberative body empowered to appoint the Supreme ...

, the deliberative body empowered to designate and dismiss the Supreme Leader of Iran *

Freedom of assembly Freedom of peaceful assembly, sometimes used interchangeably with the freedom of association, is the individual right or ability of people to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue, and defend their collective or shared ide ...

, the individual right to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue and defend common interests *

School assembly A school assembly is a gathering of all or part of a school for purposes, such as special programs or communicating information basis. In some schools, students gather to perform a common song or prayer, and to receive common announcements. A ro ...

, a gathering of all or part of a school

Science, technology and manufacturing

* Assembly, the act of combining components in

manufacturing Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer to a r ...

, or the resulting assemblage *

Assembly modelling Assembly modeling is a technology and method used by computer-aided design and product visualization computer software systems to handle multiple files that represent components within a product. The components within an assembly are represented a ...

, technology and methods used by computer-aided design and product visualization software *

Assembly line An assembly line is a manufacturing process (often called a ''progressive assembly'') in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in seq ...

, a manufacturing process in which parts are added to a product in a sequential manner *

Self-assembly Self-assembly is a process in which a disordered system of pre-existing components forms an organized structure or pattern as a consequence of specific, local interactions among the components themselves, without external direction. When the ...

, a process in which disordered components form an organized structure without external direction *

Sequence assembly In bioinformatics, sequence assembly refers to aligning and merging fragments from a longer DNA sequence in order to reconstruct the original sequence. This is needed as DNA sequencing technology might not be able to 'read' whole genomes in one ...

, a process to reconstruct a long DNA sequence from numerous fragments *

Assembly rules Community assembly rules are a set of controversial rules in ecology, first proposed by Jared Diamond. Rules The rules were developed after more than a decade of research into the avian assemblages on islands near New Guinea. The rules assert th ...

, set of controversial rules in ecology proposed by Jared Diamond to explain species community composition *

Assembly Assembly may refer to: Organisations and meetings * Deliberative assembly, a gathering of members who use parliamentary procedure for making decisions * General assembly, an official meeting of the members of an organization or of their representa ...

of a virion (Virology)

Computing

Assembly language In computer programming, assembly language (or assembler language, or symbolic machine code), often referred to simply as Assembly and commonly abbreviated as ASM or asm, is any low-level programming language with a very strong correspondence be ...

, a programming language providing symbolic representation of machine code *

Assembly (programming) In computer programming an assembly is a runtime unit consisting of types and other resources. All types in an assembly have the same version number. Often, one assembly has only one namespace and is used by one program. But it can span over se ...

, a runtime unit of types and resources with the same version *

Assembly (CLI) Defined by Microsoft for use in recent versions of Windows, an assembly in the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) is a compiled code library used for deployment, versioning, and security. There are two types: process assemblies (EXE) and librar ...

, an XML wrapper around a compiled code library (the XML-wrapped-library itself is also sometimes referred to as an assembly) used for deployment, versioning, and security *

Assembly (demo party) The Assembly demoparty is a demoscene and gaming event in Finland. It is the biggest demoscene party. The main organizers of the event are Pekka Aakko (''Pehu'' of Accession) and Jussi Laakkonen (''Abyss'' of Future Crew). The Summer event takes p ...

, an annual computer event in Finland

Arts and entertainment

Assemble (collective) Assemble is a collective based in London who work across the fields of art, architecture and design. They began working together in 2010 and have described themselves as having between 16 and 20 permanent members. Assemble's working practice seeks ...

, a London-based collective active in art, architecture and design * ''Assembly'' (events promoter), one of the main programmers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe * ''Assembly'' (film), a 2007 Chinese war drama * ''Assembly'' (TV series), a 2015 television series

Music

* ''Assemble'' (album), an album by Grown at Home *

Assembly (bugle call) "Assembly" is a bugle call that signals troops to assemble at a designated place. "Assembly" and " Adjutant's Call" are the two bugle calls that make up the "formation" category of bugle call.Robert S. Rush, ''NCO Guide'' (Stackpole Books Stac ...

, a call used to bring in a group of soldiers * ''Assembly'' (John Foxx album), 1992 * ''Assembly'' (Theatre of Tragedy album) *

The Assembly The Assembly were a British synth-pop project formed in 1983 in Basildon, England, by Vince Clarke (songwriting, keyboards, backing vocals) and Eric Radcliffe (songwriting, production). Feargal Sharkey was hired as a guest vocalist for the A- ...

, a synth pop project started in 1983 * ''Assembly'', a 2021 compilation album by

Joe Strummer John Graham Mellor (21 August 1952 – 22 December 2002), known professionally as Joe Strummer, was a British singer, musician and songwriter. He was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and co-lead vocalist of punk rock band the Clash, ...

Other uses

Assembly station Assembly station (originally Assembly Square in some planning documents) is a rapid transit station in Somerville, Massachusetts. It serves the MBTA's Orange Line. It is an infill station, located on a section of the Orange Line that has been ...