Assignment, assign or The Assignment may refer to: * Homework *

Sex assignment Sex assignment (sometimes known as gender assignment) is the discernment of an infant's sex at or before birth. A relative, midwife, nurse or physician inspects the external genitalia when the baby is delivered and, in more than 99.95% of birt ...

* The process of sending National Basketball Association players to its development league; see

Computing

* Assignment (computer science), a type of modification to a variable * Drive letter assignment, the process of assigning alphabetical identifiers to disk drives or partitions *

ASSIGN (DOS command) This article presents a list of commands used by DOS operating systems, especially as used on x86-based IBM PC compatibles (PCs). Other DOS operating systems are not part of the scope of this list. In DOS, many standard system commands were pro ...

Mathematics

Assignment problem The assignment problem is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem. In its most general form, the problem is as follows: :The problem instance has a number of ''agents'' and a number of ''tasks''. Any agent can be assigned to perform any ta ...

, a type of math problem *

Assignment (mathematical logic) In logic and model theory, a valuation can be: *In propositional logic, an assignment of truth values to propositional variables, with a corresponding assignment of truth values to all propositional formulas with those variables. *In first-order lo ...

Financial and legal

Assignment (housing law) Assignment is a concept in housing law that allows the transfer of a tenancy from one person to another. Not all tenancies offer assignment and often permission from the landlord A landlord is the owner of a house, apartment, condominium, land ...

, a concept that allows the transfer of a tenancy from one person to another * Assignment (law), a transfer of rights between two parties * Along with clearing, a stage in exercising a financial option

Entertainment

Literature

* ''The Assignment'' (novella), by Friedrich Dürrenmatt * ''The Assignment'', a book by

Sophie Labelle Sophie Labelle is a Canadian cartoonist, public speaker, and writer. She is known for her webcomic ''Assigned Male'', which draws upon her experiences as a trans girl and woman. She is an activist in the transgender rights movement, and speak ...

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