Other forms: assemblies
An assembly is the gathering of a whole school at the start of the day. School assembly, morning assembly, in assembly.
In England and Wales, schools are legally required to hold a daily act of collective worship, which is why assembly exists in the form it does. An assembly is also a law-making body — the Welsh Assembly, the National Assembly — and in manufacturing, assembly is putting the parts together: an assembly line, the assembly plant. Note freedom of assembly, meaning the right to gather in public.
1nounassemblyA gathering of a whole school at the start of the day.
“Assembly is at nine and lasts about fifteen minutes.”
2nounlawA law-making body.
“The national assembly voted to lower the voting age to sixteen.”
3nounputtingThe putting together of parts.
“The bookcase comes flat-packed, and assembly takes an hour.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
assembly is a gathering or putting together.
Old French asemblee comes from assembler, to bring together — from Latin ad plus simul, meaning together at the same time. The same simul gives simultaneous and similar.
Old French
asemblee
Anglo-Norman
asemblee
Middle English
assemblee
English, today
assembly
From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). by surface analysis, assemble + -y.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA