assignment
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (6)assignments
- a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)“hazardous assignment”Synonyms: duty assignmentType of dutyKinds mission, guard duty, shore duty, fatigue duty, sea-duty, reassignment
- the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to anotherType of legal document, legal instrument
- the act of distributing something to designated places or persons“the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum”Synonyms: assigningType of distributionKinds allocation, storage allocation
- (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyanceSynonyms: grantType of transferred property, transferred possessionKinds land grant, appanage
- an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)Type of undertaking, projectKinds school assignment, written assignment
- the act of putting a person into a non-elective position“the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee”Synonyms: appointmentdesignationnamingType of decision, determinationKinds nomination, recognition, co-option, ordination, delegacy
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Translations
Noun transfer of rights or benefits
Noun typically a task given to students
- Spanish
- tarea
- French
- devoir
- German
- Aufgabe
- Turkish
- ödev
- Russian
- дома́шнее зада́ние domášneje zadánije
- Chinese
- 作业 zuòyè
- Dutch
- huiswerk
- Polish
- zadanie
- Indonesian
- tugas
- Hungarian
- feladat
1 more language
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 作業 zuòyè
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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.
☞ 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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<programming> 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.
(1996-08-19)