0 present participle of assign --
1 to give a particular job or piece of work to someone: --
The report assigned the blame for the accident to inadequate safety regulations.
Detectives have been unable to assign a motive for the murder.
Each visitor to the site chooses an online alter ego, which is assigned a name.
Have you assigned a day for the interviews yet?
[ + two objects ] UN troops were assigned the task of rebuilding the hospital.
2 to send someone somewhere to do a job: --
She was assigned to the newspaper's Berlin office.
3 to put a value in a particular position in the memory of a computer --
4 to give property, money, or rights using a legal process: --
Her property was assigned to her grandchildren.
The task of assigning specific weights that coincide with the observer's perception of each feature set is not feasible.
There are 27 ways of assigning three bottles to three people, or six permutations if each person gets exactly one bottle.
Assigning work duties and controlling schedules turned out to be significant sources of power.
Successful parsing involves segmenting speech into phrases, assigning category labels to words, and determining syntactic dependencies and hierarchical organization.
However, apart from coherence, the practice of "assigning" motions can hardly lead one to truth.
When assigning types, the definition of substitutions between contexts must be modified slightly, as follows.
Maybe some readers find non-aggregation equally implausible as assigning absolute priority to the worse off.
We can get a better lower bound and close the gap by assigning priorities to paths.
