Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of assembling.
- noun The state of being assembled.
- noun A collection of people or things; a gathering.
- noun A collection of items from a single datable component of an archaeological site.
- noun A fitting together of parts, as those in a machine.
- noun A sculptural composition consisting of an arrangement of miscellaneous objects or found materials.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the logicomathematical science of multitude, otherwise called the theory of cardinal numbers, a collection, not in the sense that the objects are assembled or collected, but merely in the sense that many things are regarded in thought as constituting one thing.
- noun The act of assembling or the state of being assembled; association.
- noun A collection of individuals or of particular things: as, an assemblage of noted men; an assemblage of various materials.
- noun The act of fitting together, as parts of a machine; in carpentry and joinery, a union of parts or pieces by framing, dovetailing, etc. See
assembling .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.
- noun A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A collection of things which have been gathered together or
assembled .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the social act of assembling
- noun a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose
- noun a group of persons together in one place
- noun several things grouped together or considered as a whole
Etymologies
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Examples
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The scheme of setbacks and added height might result in assemblage of smaller lots to comply with setbacks and leave enough footprint to build the bigger tower.
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However, he noted that the "Limbo assemblage is dominated by horizontal and oblique hatched bands, as opposed to comb-stamping and criss-crossed bands found frequently with Kwale and Urewe respectively."
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That volatility requires not only repeated reassertions of his paternality — as Teltscher demonstrates, this ideological assemblage is highly over-determined — but also supplementation by a series of more complex phantasmatic constructions which not only undo the tight ideological sutures achieved in the initial performance, but also raise questions about how the nation can be seen at this distance from the metropole.
Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta 2006
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The assemblage is dominated by broad-leaved deciduous plants (alder, beech, etc.) along with roses, grapes, and dawn redwood, and most of the genera are no longer found in the Pacific Northwest.
Archive 2006-10-01 ScienceWoman 2006
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Whether you want to call it a "comic book", a "graphic novel" or, as Clowes playfully says on the contents page, a "narraglyphic picto-assemblage", is up to you.
IMPORTANT amuchmoreexotic 2005
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The geological setting in this area is characterized by an assemblage of mafic rocks, dacitic tuffs, wackes and conglomerates of the Taibi Group.
unknown title 2011
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Along with many others, including Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso and Kurt Schwitters, German-born Elsa created two- and three-dimensional compositions of found objects, an artistic process that in the mid-20th century was labelled "assemblage".
Evening Standard - Home Fay Maschler 2011
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A federal appraisal would be done as part of the trade, if Congress approves the swap, but Will expressed doubt that the appraisal would take into account the value of "assemblage" - the added value he suggested the strip of BLM land gains by virtue of the adjacent acreage Wexner has amassed around it.
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A federal appraisal would be done as part of the trade, if Congress approves the swap, but Will expressed doubt that the appraisal would take into account the value of "assemblage" - the added value he suggested the strip of BLM land gains by virtue of the adjacent acreage Wexner has amassed around it.
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A federal appraisal would be done as part of the trade, if Congress approves the swap, but Will expressed doubt that the appraisal would take into account the value of "assemblage" - the added value he suggested the strip of BLM land gains by virtue of the adjacent acreage Wexner has amassed around it.
jmjarmstrong commented on the word assemblage
JM has encountered an assemblage of jigsaw puzzlers
May 26, 2010