Assemblies
Overview page. Subjects: Dance.
The term assembly is derived from the French verb assembler (to gather or meet). Although it is also applied to meetings for prayer, legal proceedings, or governing, the word has ...
assembly
in Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
January 2006; p ublished online January 2008 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Biochemistry. 7 words.
an alternative name for sequence assembly.
assembly
Overview page. Subjects: Warfare and Defence.
N. pl. -ies usually the assembly a signal for troops to assemble, given by drum or bugle.
Assemblies
in The International Encyclopedia of Dance
January 1998; p ublished online January 2005 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Dance. 921 words.
The term assembly is derived from the French verb assembler (to gather or meet). Although it is also applied to
assembly
in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
January 2011; p ublished online January 2011 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Classical Literature. 31 words.
In Greece, see ecclesia. At Rome citizen assemblies, comitia, met in the Comitium, an area north of
Assemblies
in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
January 1991; p ublished online January 2005 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance History (500 to 1500). 291 words.
In addition to the senate, Byz. was familiar with other forms of assemblies with claims to political power. The
assembly
in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
January 2001; p ublished online January 2002 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Military History. 18 words.
n. pl. -ies usually the assembly a signal for troops to assemble, given by drum or bugle.
assembly
Overview page. Subjects: Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Part of a subsystem of a spacecraft. An attitude control subsystem, for example, may contain three or four reaction-wheel assemblies.
Assembly
in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
January 2010; p ublished online January 2010 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Classical History. 1437 words.
The ekklēsia was the assembly in the Greek city-state. It is first known from the Homeric poems, in which it
Assemblies
Overview page. Subjects: Dance.
The term assembly is derived from the French verb assembler (to gather or meet). Although it is also applied to meetings for prayer, legal proceedings, or governing, the word has ...
assembly
Overview page. Subjects: Classical Studies.
The people of Israel were summoned as a whole community to listen to Moses and Aaron (Exod. 12: 3) and to Solomon (1 Kgs. 8: 14). In the taunt song over Babylon, the king of Babylon is...
