An Assignment

1. The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
2. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
3. An assigned task.
4. A position to which someone is assigned.
5. (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
6. (law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
7. (law) A document that effects this transfer.
8. (programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.