Assignment
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Assignment may refer to:
- Assignment (computer programming), a type of modification to a variable
- Assignment (education), a task given to students by their teachers to be completed out of the class time.
- Assignment (law)Assignment (law)An assignment is a term used with similar meanings in the law of contracts and in the law of real estate. In both instances, it encompasses the transfer of rights held by one party—the assignor—to another party—the assignee...
, a transfer of rights between two parties - Assignment (mathematical logic)
- The Assignment (1977 film)The Assignment (1977 film)The Assignment is a 1977 Swedish drama film directed by Mats Arehn and starring Christopher Plummer, Thomas Hellberg and Carolyn Seymour. A Swedish foreign office official travels to South America on a peace-making mission. It was based on the novel Uppdraget by Per Wahlöö.-Cast:* Christopher...
, a Swedish film - The Assignment (1997 film)
- The Assignment (upcoming film) directed by Timothy J. Nelson
- The Assignment (novella)The Assignment (novella)Der Auftrag is a 1986 novella by the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt. The first English publication appeared in 1988, translated by Joel Agee. The experimental narrative is divided into twenty-four parts, each one a single sentence spanning many pages...
- "The Assignment" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), a television episode
- "The Assignment" (Chick Publications), a religious tract
- Assignment problemAssignment problemThe assignment problem is one of the fundamental combinatorial optimization problems in the branch of optimization or operations research in mathematics...
, a type of math problem - Along with clearing, a stage in exercising a financial option