(US politics) The lower legislative body of each of a number of states of the United States.

A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.

The act of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.

A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.

(politics) A legislative body.

(military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

(computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.

(computing, 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.