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Definition of Assembly

Assembly

  1. A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.
  2. A collection of inanimate objects.
  3. A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

Assembly Quotations

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.
Angelina Jolie

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
Christopher Morley

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Assembly Translations

assembly in Dutch is samenscholing
assembly in German is Baugruppe, Montage, Assembler {m}
assembly in Italian is accumulazione, allineamento, montaggio
assembly in Latin is celebratio, gelamen, congregatio, consilium
assembly in Portuguese is conjunto
assembly in Spanish is ajuste, asamblea
assembly in Swedish is samling

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