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A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
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In order to change the bearing, you must first remove the gearbox assembly.
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The act of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
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assembly line
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A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
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freedom of assembly
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A legislative body.
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A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
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In Microsoft .NET, a building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.