meaning of assignment

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. 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.
3. The writing by which an interest is transferred.
4. The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.
5. 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.
6. the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole ">committee"

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