Assignment, assign or The Assignment may refer to: *

Homework Homework is a set of tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed outside the classroom. Common homework assignments may include required reading, a writing or typing project, mathematical exercises to be completed, informatio ...

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 In computer data storage, drive letter assignment is the process of assigning alphabetical identifiers to volumes. Unlike the concept of UNIX mount points, where volumes are named and located arbitrarily in a single hierarchical namespace, dri ...

, the process of assigning alphabetical identifiers to disk drives or partitions * ASSIGN (DOS command)

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) 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-ord ...

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) 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 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 spea ...

Film and TV