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 ...

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

Computing

Assignment (computer science) In computer programming, an assignment statement sets and/or re-sets the value stored in the storage location(s) denoted by a variable name; in other words, it copies a value into the variable. In most imperative programming languages, the as ...

, 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 t ...

, a type of math problem * Assignment (mathematical logic)

Financial and legal

* Assignment (housing law), a concept that allows the transfer of a tenancy from one person to another *

Assignment (law) An assignment is a legal term used in the context of the law of contract and of property. In both instances, assignment is the process e whereby a person, the ''assignor'', transfers rights or benefits to another, the ''assignee''.For the ass ...

, 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

Film and TV