Key terms & definitions

The murder of a prominent person, usually for political reasons.

A program that translates assembly-language instructions into machine-code instructions.

The meeting of Athenian male citizens that debated and voted on public affairs.

A public social gathering at which people meet and dance. The Meryton assembly introduces the Bennet sisters to Bingley and Darcy.

The political meeting in Athens at which male citizens debated and voted on public decisions; women could not normally participate.

The process of joining separate components to form a complete product.

A drawing showing how the components of a product fit together, either assembled or separated in an exploded view.

A low-level programming language that uses mnemonic names to represent machine-code instructions.

A manufacturing system in which a product moves between workers or machines, each completing a particular task.

A statement presented without supporting reasons or evidence.

A skill assessed in an examination. AQA uses numbered assessment objectives, such as AO1 for understanding and interpreting texts.

An item owned by a business, such as machinery, inventory or cash.

An instruction that stores a value in a variable.

An instruction that stores a value in a variable or another storage location.

The process of making a group adopt the culture and way of life of another society. US assimilation policies sought to replace Native American languages, beliefs and communal traditions with white American practices.

The process of adapting to the dominant culture of a society, sometimes at the expense of existing cultural traditions.

The process through which immigrants adopt the dominant culture's norms, values and ways of life, moving away from their previous culture.

Interpreting a new experience using an existing schema without changing its basic structure.

Help given to a person to end their own life. In the Dignity in Dying campaign, this concerns medically assisted dying for terminally ill adults with mental capacity and legal safeguards.

An approach to finding a spouse in which relatives or others help with introductions while the individuals take the leading role in choosing.

Medical treatment used to help people conceive, including IVF.

The use of medical techniques to help someone achieve a pregnancy, often by controlling reproduction with hormones or handling eggs, sperm or embryos.

Helping someone to take their own life, for example by providing the means; the person themselves performs the final act.

Equipment or software, together with related support, that helps people carry out activities they would otherwise find difficult or impossible.

Courts in which travelling royal judges heard cases in local areas.

A relationship in which two features vary together; this does not by itself show that one causes the other.

A relationship between variables: their values are connected rather than appearing unrelated.

An operation is associative if changing the grouping, without changing the order, leaves the result unchanged. Matrix multiplication satisfies $(AB)C=A(BC)$.

The rule that changing the grouping of addition or multiplication does not change the result: $(a+b)+c=a+(b+c)$ and .

The repetition of similar vowel sounds in nearby words.