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Assignment

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Assignment, assign or The Assignment may refer to:

Homework
Assignment (NBA D-League), process of sending National Basketball Association players to its development league
Sex assignment

Computing

Assignment (computer science), a type of modification to a variable
Drive letter assignment, the process of assigning alphabetical identifiers to disk drives or partitions
The DOS ASSIGN command

Mathematics

Assignment problem, a type of math problem
Assignment (mathematical logic)

Financial and legal

Assignment (law), a transfer of rights between two parties
Along with clearing, a stage in exercising a financial option

Entertainment

Literature

The Assignment (novella), by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Assignment, a Chick tract
The Assignment, a book by Sophie Labelle

Film and TV

The Assignment (1977 film)
The Assignment (1997 film)
Assignment (2015 film)
The Assignment (2016 film)
"The Assignment" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

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