Assignment, assign or The Assignment may refer to:
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Homework
Homework is a set of tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed at home. Common homework assignments may include required reading, a writing or typing project, Exercise (mathematics), math problems to be completed, informatio ...
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Sex assignment
Sex assignment (also known as gender assignment) is the discernment of an infant's sex, typically made at birth based on an examination of the baby's external genitalia by a healthcare provider such as a midwife, nurse, or physician. In the v ...
* The process of sending National Basketball Association players to its development league; see
Computing
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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 ass ...
, a type of modification to a variable
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Drive letter assignment, the process of assigning alphabetical identifiers to disk drives or partitions
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ASSIGN (DOS command)
Mathematics
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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
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Assignment (mathematical logic)
Financial and legal
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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 property such as a house, apartmen ...
, a concept that allows the transfer of a tenancy from one person to another
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Assignment (law)
Assignment is a legal term used in the context of the laws of contract and of property. In both instances, assignment is the process whereby a person, the ''assignor'', transfers rights or benefits to another, the ''assignee''.For the assignment ...
, a transfer of rights between two parties
* Along with clearing, a stage in
exercising a financial option
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General assignment or Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors, an alternative to bankruptcy for businesses that's available in British common law and some US states
Entertainment
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''The Assignment'' (novella), by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
* ''The Assignment'', a 2016 book by
Sophie Labelle
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''The Assignment'' (1977 film), a Swedish drama film
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''The Assignment'' (1997 film), a spy action thriller film
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''Assignment'' (film), a 2015 South African political thriller
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''The Assignment'' (2016 film), an action crime thriller film
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"The Assignment" (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'')
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''Assignment'' (TV program), a late night news magazine program
* ''The Assignment'', a podcast by
Audie Cornish
See also
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