assemblage

1. is a type of: social group - people sharing some social relation
   subtypes:

   • building - the occupants of a building
   • carload - a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile
   • contingent - a gathering of persons representative of some larger group
   • floor - the occupants of a floor
   • pair - two people considered as a unit
   • room - the people who are present in a room
   • threesome, triad, trinity, trio - three people considered as a unit
   • turnout - the group that gathers together for a particular occasion
   • foursome, quartet, quartette - four people considered as a unit
   • fivesome, quintet, quintette - five people considered as a unit
   • sextet, sextette, sixsome - six people considered as a unit
   • septet, septette, sevensome - seven people considered as a unit
   • eightsome, octet, octette - eight people considered as a unit
   • assembly - a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose
   • crowd - a large number of things or people considered together
   • concourse, multitude, throng - a large gathering of people
   • audience - a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance
   • community - a group of people living in a particular local area
   • municipality - people living in a town or city having local self-government
   • cast, cast of characters, dramatis personae - the actors in a play
   • class, course, form, grade - a body of students who are taught together
   • class, year - a body of students who graduate together
   • social affair, social gathering - a gathering for the purpose of promoting fellowship
   • bunch, crew, crowd, gang - an informal body of friends
   • group meeting, meeting - a formally arranged gathering
   • covey - a small collection of people
   • quorum - a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business
   • mass meeting, rally - a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm
   • commune - a body of people or families living together and sharing everything
   • convocation - a group gathered in response to a summons
   • fair - gathering of producers to promote business
   • bevy - a large gathering of people of a particular type
   • cortege, entourage, retinue, suite - the group following and attending to some important person
   • camp - a group of people living together in a camp
   • muster - a gathering of military personnel for duty
   • rap group - a gathering of people holding a rap session
   • rave-up - a raucous gathering
   • table - a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game
   • wine tasting - a gathering of people to taste and compare different wines
   same as: gathering
2. is a type of: system - instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity
   same as: hookup
3. is a type of: group action - action taken by a group of people
   subtypes:

   • mobilisation, mobilization - act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action
   • calling together, convocation - the act of convoking
   • coming together, congress, meeting - the social act of assembling for some common purpose
   • congregating, congregation - the act of congregating
   • convening, convention - the act of convening
   • concentration - bringing together military forces
   same as: assembly, gathering
4. is a type of: group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
   subtypes:

   • procession - the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation
   • pharmacopoeia - a collection or stock of drugs
   • string - a collection of objects threaded on a single strand
   • wardrobe - collection of clothing belonging to one person
   • wardrobe - collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company
   • population, universe - (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
   • armamentarium - the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine
   • art collection - a collection of art works
   • backlog - an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services)
   • battery - a collection of related things intended for use together
   • block - a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
   • book, rule book - a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made
   • book - a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game
   • bottle collection - a collection of bottles
   • bunch, caboodle, lot - any collection in its entirety
   • coin collection - a collection of coins
   • collage - any collection of diverse things
   • content, contents - (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
   • ensemble, tout ensemble - an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole
   • corpus - a collection of writings
   • crop - a collection of people or things appearing together
   • tenantry - tenants of an estate considered as a group
   • findings - a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes
   • flagging - flagstones collectively
   • flinders - bits and splinters and fragments
   • pack - a complete collection of similar things
   • deal, hand - the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
   • long suit - in a hand, the suit having the most cards
   • herbarium - a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study
   • stamp collection - a collection of stamps
   • statuary - statues collectively
   • sum, sum total, summation - the final aggregate
   • agglomeration - a jumbled collection or mass
   • gimmickry - a collection of gimmicks
   • nuclear club - the nations possessing nuclear weapons
   • agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound, pile - a collection of objects laid on top of each other
   • mass - an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
   • combination - a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities
   • congregation - an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together
   • hit parade - a collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind
   • judaica - materials relating to Judaism
   • kludge - a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together)
   • library, program library, subroutine library - (computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use
   • library - a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing
   • mythology - myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person
   • biology, biota - all the plant and animal life of a particular region
   • fauna, zoology - all the animal life in a particular region or period
   • petting zoo - a collection of docile animals for children to pet and feed
   • set - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
   • victoriana - collection of materials of or characteristic of the Victorian era
   • category, class, family - a collection of things sharing a common attribute
   • job lot - a miscellaneous collection of things sold together
   • bundle, package, packet, parcel - a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
   • defence, defense, defense lawyers, defense team - the defendant and his legal advisors collectively
   • prosecution - the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant
   • planting - a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area
   • signage - signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters)
   • gaap, generally accepted accounting principles - a collection of rules and procedures and conventions that define accepted accounting practice; includes broad guidelines as well as detailed procedures
   • pantheon - all the gods of a religion
   • free world - anti-communist countries collectively
   • third world - underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively
   • europe - the nations of the European continent collectively
   • asia - the nations of the Asian continent collectively
   • north america - the nations of the North American continent collectively
   • central america - the nations of Central America collectively
   • south america - the nations of the South American continent collectively
   • oort cloud - (astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto; perturbations (as by other stars) can upset a comet's orbit and may send it tumbling toward the sun
   • galaxy - a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people)
   • extragalactic nebula, galaxy - (astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust
   • fleet - a group of warships organized as a tactical unit
   • fleet - group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership
   • fleet - group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
   • repertoire, repertory - a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule
   • repertoire, repertory - the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation
   • assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety - a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
   • batch, clutch - a collection of things or persons to be handled together
   • batch - all the loaves of bread baked at the same time
   • rogue's gallery - a collection of pictures of criminals
   • exhibition, expo, exposition - a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
   • convoy - a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships
   • traffic - the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
   • air power, aviation - the aggregation of a country's military aircraft
   • botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period
   • jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority
   • menagerie - a collection of live animals for study or display
   • data, information - a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
   • ana - a collection of anecdotes about a person or place
   • mail, post - any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
   • treasure - a collection of precious things
   • treasure trove - any collection of valuables that is discovered
   • trinketry - trinkets and other ornaments of dress collectively
   • troponomy, troponymy - the place names of a region or a language considered collectively
   • smithereens - a collection of small fragments considered as a whole
   specific instances:

   • nag hammadi, nag hammadi library - a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism
   • magi, wise men - (New Testament) the sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born; the Gospel According to Matthew says they were guided by a star and brought gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh; because there were three gifts it is usually assumed that there were three of them
   same as: accumulation, aggregation, collection

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