Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 The assembly of a retail product by the customer 2 The assembly of a biological or chemical material from a disorganized collection by means of interactions between the components
Wikipedia
Self-assembly is a process in which a disordered system of pre-existing components forms an organized structure or pattern as a consequence of specific, local interactions among the components themselves, without external direction. When the constitutive components are molecules, the process is termed molecular self-assembly.
Self-assembly can be classified as either static or dynamic. In static self-assembly, the ordered state forms as a system approaches equilibrium, reducing its free energy. However, in dynamic self-assembly, patterns of pre-existing components organized by specific local interactions are not commonly described as "self-assembled" by scientists in the associated disciplines. These structures are better described as " self-organized".
Usage examples of "self-assembly".
Then, with partial self-assembly, you might get the time down to several hours, perhaps even one hour.
This was way back in the early days before they figured out how to do self-assembly properly.
There may or may not be a great deal of life in the universe at large, but there is no shortage of ordered self-assembly, in everything from the transfixing symmetry of snowflakes to the comely rings of Saturn.
Scindex is a whole, self-contained, stand-alone, instant self-publishing and self-assembly system.