| Pronunciation: | | u'sInmunt
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| Matching Terms: | | assignment problem
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"
- [n] the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"
- [n] as duty that you are assigned to perform especially in the armed forces; "hazardous duty"
- [n] an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
- [n] the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
- [n] (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
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| | Synonyms: | | appointment, assigning, designation, duty assignment, grant, naming |
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| | See Also: | | allocation, apanage, appanage, charge, commission, conclusion, co-optation, co-option, decision, delegacy, determination, distribution, duty, fatigue, fatigue duty, guard, guard duty, instrument, labor, land grant, legal document, legal instrument, mission, nomination, official document, ordinance, ordination, project, reassignment, school assignment, sea-duty, sentry duty, sentry go, service abroad, shipboard duty, shore duty, task, transferred possession, transferred property, undertaking, writing assignment, written assignment |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \As*sign"ment\, n. [LL. assignamentum: cf. OF.
assenement.]
1. An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or
use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in
court.
2. (Law)
(a) A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of
lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of
the whole of some particular estate or interest in
lands.
(b) The writing by which an interest is transferred.
(c) The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain
persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the
benefit of creditors.
{Assignment of dower}, the setting out by metes and bounds of
the widow's thirds or portion in the deceased husband's
estate, and allotting it to her.
Note: Assignment is also used in law as convertible with
specification; assignment of error in proceedings for
review being specification of error; and assignment of
perjury or fraud in indictment being specifications of
perjury or fraud.
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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Storing the value of an expression in a variable. This is commonly written in the form "v = e". In algol the assignment operator was ":=" (pronounced "becomes") to avoid mathematicians qualms about writing statements like x = x+1. Assignment is not allowed in functional languages, where an identifier always has the same value. See also referential transparency, single assignment, zero assignment. |
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| | See Also: | | programming |
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| Legal Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | The transfer to another person of any property, real or personal. |
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