assignment : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: assignment	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for assignment
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
assignment n a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces); "hazardous duty" Synonym(s): assignment, duty assignment the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum" Synonym(s): assignment, assigning (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance Synonym(s): grant, assignment an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee" Synonym(s): appointment, assignment, designation, naming
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Assignment \Assign"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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
assignment 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)