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UK
/ɐsˈɛmblɪdʒ/
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[ US /əˈsɛmbɫədʒ, əˈsɛmbɫɪdʒ/ ]
[ US /əˈsɛmbɫədʒ, əˈsɛmbɫɪdʒ/ ]
NOUN
- a group of persons together in one place
- several things grouped together or considered as a whole
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the social act of assembling
they demanded the right of assembly - a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose
How To Use assemblage In A Sentence
- Another is a rangy assemblage of vicious thorns, called myrrh, a second gift of the Magi. NYT > Home Page
- This gathering is the largest periodic assemblage of human beings on the planet.
- The fine-grained assemblage is dominated by tabular, low-density elements, such as cycloid scales and fish vertebrae. Archive 2008-04-01
- An exotic Lebanese assemblage of Sauvignon and muscat, this crisp, complex wine has a nose of light apricot and white flowers.
- Russell Coope, The climatic significance of coleopteran assemblages from the Eemian deposits in southern England, Geologie en Mijnbouw / Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 79 (2/3): 257-267 (2000) Bürger and Cubasch: Are multiproxy climate reconstructions robust? « Climate Audit
- A varied assemblage of birds was probing the mud for food.
- At Ali Kosh in the southern Zagros Mountains of Iran, an assemblage dating to about 7000 BC that includes hornless sheep is taken as clear evidence of flock manipulation.
- The mineral assemblage comprises quartz, K-feldspar, albitic plagioclase, white mica, apatite, tourmaline and garnet.
- The biotic diversity of the grasslands has historically supported a diverse assemblage of species.
- Fossil seals from late Neogene deposits in South America: a new pinniped (Carnivora, Mammalia) assemblage from Chile. Archive 2006-02-01
