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assembly line
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
assembly line \assembly line\ n. A line of machinery, tools, and workers on which objects to be manufactured are moved from one post to the next, where different workers perform different steps in the manufacturing process; called also production line. The objects to be manufactured usually move on a form of conveyor belt, which does not necessarily move only in a straight line, but may continue around the factory area for some distance.
Wiktionary
n. (context manufacturing English) A system of workers and machinery in which a product is assembled in a series of consecutive operations; typically the product is attached to a continuously moving belt
WordNet
n. mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it [syn: production line, line]
Wikipedia
An assembly line is a manufacturing process (most of the time called a progressive assembly) in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced. By mechanically moving the parts to the assembly work and moving the semi-finished assembly from work station to work station, a finished product can be assembled faster and with less labor than by having workers carry parts to a stationary piece for assembly.
Assembly lines are common methods of assembling complex items such as automobiles and other transportation equipment, household appliances and electronic goods.
Usage examples of "assembly line".
I remember the last Deng war, in which I fought as a rookie straight off the assembly line.
Ordinary ships can be grown on an assembly line to a common template, a hundred or a thousand of them identical.
The parts arrived mostly by train-loaded containers from ports on both American coasts, were separated by type, and stored in stockrooms adjacent to the portion of the assembly line at which they would be joined with the automobiles.
He's got an automated assembly line that will just keep churning them out, it's only distribution that is a problem.
Furthermore, production by assembly line creates a fundamental need for planned obsolescence or else the assembly line, by its own efficiency, would fill the needs of everyone in the market and be forced to shut down.
Micaya and Forister hadn't waited to take the full tour of the hyperchip assembly line.
They put every available Scot onto an assembly line converting bullets and they had cases and cases of them now.