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 Edmund Burke (; 12 January ew Style, NS1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish Po ...

, 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 g ...

, 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 repr ...

, 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. Popular assemblies tend to be freely open to participation, in contrast to elected assemblies and randomly-selected citizens' as ...

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

Qahal The ''qahal'' (), sometimes spelled ''kahal'', was a theocratic organizational structure in ancient Israelite society according to the Hebrew Bible, See column345-6 and an Ashkenazi Jewish system of a self-governing community or kehila from ...

, or assembly, an Israelite organizational structure * People's Assembly (disambiguation) *

Assembly of Experts The Assembly of Experts (), 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 Leader of Iran. All directly elected members must first be vetted ...

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

Freedom of assembly Freedom of assembly, sometimes used interchangeably with the freedom of association, is the individual right or ability of individuals to peaceably assemble and collectively express, promote, pursue, and defend their ideas. The right to free ...

, the individual right to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue and defend common interests * School assembly, 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 the secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer ...

, or the resulting assemblage * Assembly modelling, technology and methods used by computer-aided design and product visualization software *

Assembly line An assembly line, often called ''progressive assembly'', is a manufacturing process where the unfinished product moves in a direct line from workstation to workstation, with parts added in sequence until the final product is completed. By mechan ...

, 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 g ...

, a process to reconstruct a long DNA sequence from numerous fragments * Assembly rules, set of controversial rules in ecology proposed by Jared Diamond to explain species community composition * Assembly of a virion (Virology)

Computing

Assembly language In computing, assembly language (alternatively 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 bet ...

, a programming language providing symbolic representation of machine code * Assembly (programming), a runtime unit of types and resources with the same version *

Assembly (CLI) 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 library assemblies ( DLL). A process assembly represents a proces ...

, 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 an annual demoscene and gaming event in Finland. It is the biggest and the longest standing demoscene party. The Summer event takes place every year at Messukeskus in Helsinki, between late July and early August, and ...

, an annual computer event in Finland

Arts and entertainment

Assemble (collective) Assemble RA 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 s ...

, 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 * ''Assembly'' (novel), 2021 novel by Natasha Brown

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: 9th ...

, a call used to bring in a group of soldiers * ''Assembly'' (John Foxx album), 1992 * ''Assembly'' (Theatre of Tragedy album) * The Assembly, 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 musician. He was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist, and lead vocalist of punk rock band the Clash, formed in 1976. The Clash' ...

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