O que (quem) é assignment - definição

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assignment

n. the act of transferring an interest in property or some right (such as contract benefits) to another. It is used commonly by lawyers, accountants, business people, title companies and others dealing with property. See also: assign

Assignment

·noun The writing by which an interest is transferred.

II. Assignment ·noun An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

III. Assignment ·noun The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.

IV. Assignment ·noun 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.

assignment

<programming> 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)