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where parts forget being parts and the whole quietly takes over
means A gathering of people for a shared purpose, or the act of fitting separate parts together into a working whole.
from From Old French 'assemblee,' a coming-together, rooted in Latin 'assimulare' / 'ad-' (toward) plus 'simul' (together) — the same 'simul' that gives us 'simultaneous' and 'similar.' So at its core it simply means 'to bring toward togetherness,' whether the things brought are citizens in a hall or screws on a line.
- oldest line
- Ford's 1913 chain cut car build from hours to minutes
- language
- assembly code is human-readable machine instruction, barely
- law
- the right to assemble predates most modern democracies
- required
- flat-pack furniture made assembly a global living-room sport
- biology
- ribosomes assemble proteins, your body's tireless factory floor
for instance
boston tea party — colonists assembled december 16 1773 to protest british taxes
woodstock festival 1969 — 400000 people assembled in bethel new york for three days