assembly
A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
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.
(politics) A legislative body.
(military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
(computing) Assembly language.
(computing, 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.