Assignment wikipedia definition

For assignment of letters to disk file systems, see Drive letter assignment. In computer programming, an assignment statement sets and/or re-sets the value stored in the storage location (s) denoted by a variable name; in other words, it copies a value into the variable.

assignment (countable and uncountable, plural assignments) The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks. This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.

assignment (countable and uncountable, plural assignments) The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category. An assigned task. A position to which someone is assigned. (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.

An international assignment is an overseas task set by a company to an employee. Companies that engage in international assignments are mainly multinational corporations (MNCs). MNCs send employees from the home country to a different country for business operations at overseas offices or subsidiaries. [1]