different between assembly vs concentration

English

Etymology

From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??s?mb.l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??s?mb.li/

Noun

assembly (countable and uncountable, plural assemblies)

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

2. The act of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
3. A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
4. A legislative body.

5. (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
6. (computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.
7. (computing) In 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.

Synonyms

• church (obsolete)
• (congregation of people): foregathering

Hyponyms

• house of assembly
• jural assembly

Derived terms

• assembly point
• self-assembly

Translations

Portuguese

Etymology

From English assembly.

Noun

assembly m (plural assemblies)

1. (computing) assembly language (programming language using mnemonics that correspond to processor instructions)

   Synonym: linguagem de montagem

English

Etymology

concentrate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?ns?n?t?e???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?ns?n?t?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

concentration (usually uncountable, plural concentrations)

1. The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.
   1. The direction of attention to a specific object.
   2. The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
   3. The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
2. A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.
3. The proportion of a substance in a whole.
   1. (chemistry) The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (e.g., parts per million (ppm))
4. The matching game pelmanism.

Coordinate terms

• (course of study): major, minor

Translations

See also

• salinity

Further reading

• Concentration (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Concentration (chemistry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

First attested 1732 concentrer +? -ation.

Pronunciation

Noun

concentration f (plural concentrations)

1. concentration (mental state of being concentrated)
2. concentration (quality of being concentrated)

Derived terms

• camp de concentration

Further reading

• “concentration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

concentration (plural concentrationes)

1. concentration (state or degree of being concentrated)