assignment

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Etymology

Old French assignement

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Noun

assignment (plural assignments)

1. the act of assigning, or an assigned task
2. a position to which someone is assigned
3. (education) a task given to students, homework or coursework
4. (law) a transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right; the document that effects this transfer
5. (computing) an operation that assigns a value to a variable

Translations

act of assigning, or an assigned task

• Bulgarian: задача (bg) (zadača), предназначение (bg) (prednaznačenie)
• Dutch: toewijzen (nl) n

• Finnish: toimeksianto (fi)
• Portuguese: pauta (pt) (in journalism)

position to which someone is assigned

• Bulgarian: назначение (bg) (naznačenie)
• Finnish: toimeksianto (fi), työtehtävä (fi)

• Spanish: tarea (es) f
• Swedish: uppdrag (sv) n

transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right

• Bulgarian: преотстъпване (bg) (preotstǎpvane)

• Finnish: oikeuden luovutus

operation that assigns a value to a variable

• Bulgarian: присвояване (bg) (prisvojavane)
• Czech: přiřazení (cs) n
• Finnish: arvon asetus
• French: affectation (fr) f

• Japanese: 代入 (ja) (だいにゅう, dainyū)
• Polish: przypisanie (pl) n
• Swedish: tilldelning (sv) c