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assemblage
[ uh-sem-blij; French a-sahn-blazh ]
noun
- a group of persons or things gathered or collected; an assembly; collection; aggregate.
- the act of assembling; state of being assembled.
- Fine Arts.
- a sculptural technique of organizing or composing into a unified whole a group of unrelated and often fragmentary or discarded objects.
- Archaeology. the aggregate of artifacts and other remains found on a site, considered as material evidence in support of a theory concerning the culture or cultures inhabiting it.
assemblage
/ əˈ²õÉ›³¾²ú±ôɪ»åÏô /
noun
- a number of things or persons assembled together; collection; assembly
- a list of dishes served at a meal or the dishes themselves
- the act or process of assembling or the state of being assembled
- ˌæ²õÉ™³¾Ëˆ²ú±ôÉ‘ËÏô a three-dimensional work of art that combines various objects into an integrated whole
assemblage
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- A collection of artifacts from a single datable component of an archaeological site. Depending on the site and culture, an assemblage may be associated with a single limited activity, as with stone tools found at a butchering site, or may reflect a broad range of cultural life, as with artifacts that are found in a communal living site.
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- °ù±ða²õ·²õ±ð³¾î€ƒb±ô²¹²µ±ð noun
- ²õ³Ü²úa²õ·²õ±ð³¾î€ƒb±ô²¹²µ±ð noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of assemblage1
Example Sentences
Kentridge’s libretto is an assemblage of the characters’ words and a range of other historical sources.
In this assemblage of street addresses throughout New York City, sounds are collected with the intention of making all partners in a grand civic waltz.
"From this limited assemblage, archaeologists can say a lot".
Working within a range of media including assemblage, drawing, printing and painting, she has explored floral, fauna, folklore and symbols.
Youn and colleagues got around that jam by borrowing an idea from metamaterials, assemblages of discrete parts that act like continuous materials and can have novel properties.
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