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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Assignment \As*sign"ment\, noun [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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
assignment
noun
1: a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces); "hazardous duty" [syn: {duty assignment}]
2: the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
3: the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum" [syn: {assigning}]
4: (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance [syn: {grant}]
5: an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
6: the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee" [syn: {appointment}, {designation}, {naming}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
212 Moby Thesaurus words for "assignment": abalienation, accession, accounting for, agency, agentship, alienation, allocation, allotment, amortization, amortizement, anointing, anointment, answerability, application, appointment, apportionment, appropriation, arrogation, ascription, assignation, assumption, attachment, attribution, authority, authorization, bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal, blame, brevet, busywork, care, cession, chalk talk, chare, charge, chore, collocation, commendation, commission, commissioning, commitment, conferment, conferral, connection with, consecration, consignation, consignment, conveyance, conveyancing, coronation, credit, cure, deeding, delegated authority, delegation, deliverance, delivery, demise, denomination, deployment, deposit, deposition, deputation, derivation from, designation, determination, devoir, devolution, devolvement, discourse, disposal, disposition, disquisition, distribution, duty, earmarking, election, embassy, emplacement, empowerment, enfeoffment, entrusting, entrustment, errand, etiology, exchange, executorship, exequatur, exercise, exposition, factorship, fish to fry, fixing, full power, giving, giving out, harangue, homework, homily, honor, imputation, incumbency, infeodation, infeudation, instruction, job, job of work, jurisdiction, labor, lading, lease and release, lecture, lecture-demonstration, legation, legitimate succession, lesson, liability, license, lieutenancy, loading, localization, locating, location, make-work, mandate, matters in hand, mission, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, naming, nomination, object lesson, obligation, odd job, office, ordainment, ordination, packing, palaetiology, piece of work, pinning down, pinpointing, placement, placing, plenipotentiary power, position, positioning, post, posting, power of attorney, power to act, preachment, precision, procuration, project, proxy, purview, putting, recital, recitation, reference to, regency, regentship, relegation, remanding, reposition, responsibility, saddling, sale, seizure, selection, sermon, service, set task, setting aside, settlement, settling, signification, situation, skull session, specification, spotting, stationing, stint, stipulation, storage, stowage, succession, surrender, tabbing, tagging, taking over, talk, task, teaching, things to do, trading, transfer, transference, transferral, transmission, transmittal, trust, trusteeship, usurpation, vesting, vicarious authority, warrant, work
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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)
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