[as.sem.bly] n, pl -blies [ME assemblee, fr. MF, fr. OF, fr. assembler] (14c) 1: a company of persons gathered for deliberation and legislation, worship, or entertainment
2. cap: a legislative body; specif: the lower house of a legislature
3: assemblage 1, 2
4: a signal for troops to assemble or fall in
5. a: the fitting together of manufactured parts into a complete machine, structure, or unit of a machine b: a collection of parts so assembled
6: the translation of assembly language to machine language by an assembler