Library / English Dictionary

ASSIGNING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of distributing something to designated places or persons

Example:

the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum

Synonyms:

assigning; assignment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("assigning" is a kind of...):

distribution (the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "assigning"):

allocation; storage allocation ((computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb assign

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 Context examples: 

When chromosomes at a particular stage in cell division are stained using one of several laboratory techniques, a specific pattern of light and dark stripes (bands) appears when the chromosomes are viewed through a microscope; the banding pattern assists in assigning each chromosome its particular number and evaluating its structure.

(Chromosome Band, NCI Dictionary)

The process of assigning a label to every pixel in an image such that pixels with the same label share certain visual characteristics, allowing the image to be partitioned into multiple segments (e.g., boundaries, lines, curves).

(Image Segmentation, NCI Thesaurus)